The flowers of life are but illusions. How many fade away and leave no trace. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
How many years you have to keep on doing, until you know what to do and how to do! — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
The proper place for liberality is in the realm of the emotions. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
In every artist there is a touch of audacity without which no talent is conceivable. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Begin by instructing yourself, then you will receive instruction from others. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
The best benefit we derive from history is the enthusiasm it excites. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
“Anything you can do, or dream you do, begin it: boldness has genius, power, and magic in it.” — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
The history of knowledge is a great fugue in which the voices of the nations one after the other emerge. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Everything which is properly business we must keep carefully separate from life. Business requires earnestness and method; life must have a freed… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
We are shaped and fashioned by what we love.- Henry Ward Beecher - I never knew how to worship until I knew… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
If the mass of people hesitate to act, strike with swiftly and with boldness, the brave heart that understands and seizes opportunity… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
What you have inherited from your fathers, earn over again for yourselves, or it will not be yours. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
To have a positive religion is not necessary. To be in harmony with yourself and the universe is what counts, and this… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
I always seek the good that is in people and leave the bad to Him who made mankind and knows how to… — 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
