He alone deserves liberty and life who daily must win them anew. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
The philosophers must station themselves in the middle. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
It is ever true that he who does nothing for others, does nothing for himself." ~ Goethe — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
My poor head is in such a whirl, my mind is all in bits. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Die Zeit ist selbst ein Element. Time is itself an element. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
One cannot always be a hero, but one can always be a man. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
You shall abstain, shall abstain. That is the eternal song. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
One's roused by this, another finds that fit: Each loves the play for what he brings to it. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
It is delightful to transport one's self into the spirit of the past, to see how a wise man has thought before… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Properly speaking, such work is never finished; one must declare it so when, according to time and circumstances, one has done one's… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Nothing is good for a nation but that which arises from its own core and its own general wants, without apish imitation… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Wer fremde Sprachen nicht kennt, weiss nichts von seiner eigenen.He who is ignorant of foreign languages, knows not his own. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
The most original of authors are not so because they advance what is new, but more because they know how to say… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
We are accustomed to see men deride what they do not understand, and snarl at the good and beautiful because it lies… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
You acquire a language most readily in the country where it is spoken; you study mineralogy best among miners; and so with… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
It is a great pleasure to transport one's-self into the spirit of the times; to see how a wise man has thought… — 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
