If society gives up the right to impose the death penalty, then self-help will appear again and personal vendettas will be around… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Give me those days with heart in riot, The depths of bliss that touched on pain, The force of hate, and love's… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
We accept every person in the world as that for which he gives himself out, only he must give himself out for… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
To me the external existence of my soul is proved from my idea of activity. If I work incessantly until my death,… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
People do not mind their faults being spread out before them, but they become impatient if called on to give them up. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
[W]hat counts is that one perceives excellence and dares to give it expression, which sounds little but is in fact a great… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Children can scarcely be fashioned to meet with our likes and our purpose. Just as God did us give them, so must… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
A man does not mind being blamed for his faults, and being punished for them, and he patiently suffers much for them;… — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe Copy Share Image
No two people see the world exactly alike, and different temperaments will often apply the same principle, recognized by both, differently. Even… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
In society every man is taken for what he gives himself out to be; but he must give himself out to be… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
New inventions can and will be made; however, nothing new can be thought of that concerns moral man. Everything has already been… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Who longs in solitude to live, Ah! soon his wish will gain: Men hope and love, men get and give, and leave… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
True works of art contain their own theory and give us the measurement according to which we should judge them. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share
I never believed in trying to do anything. Whatever I set out to do I found I had already accomplished. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share
All lyrical work must, as a whole, be perfectly intelligible, but in some particulars a little unintelligible. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share
We know accurately only when we know little, with knowledge doubt increases. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share
It is easier to perceive error than to find truth, for the former lies on the surface and is easily seen, while the latter… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share
The connoisseur of art must be able to appreciate what is simply beautiful, but the common run of people is satisfied with ornament — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe Copy Share
Let us not dream that reason can ever be popular. Passions, emotions, may be made popular; but reason remains ever the property of an… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share
Just begin and the mind grows heated; continue, and the task will be completed! — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share
I look upon all four Gospels as thoroughly genuine, for there shines forth from them the reflected splendor of a sublimity proceeding from Jesus… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share
Whatever we may say against collections, which present authors in a disjointed form, they nevertheless bring about many excellent results. We are not always… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share
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