Everyone is deceived in his hopes, cheated in his expectations. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
One never learns to understand truly anything but what one loves. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
It is unpleasant to miss even the most trifling thing to which we have been accustomed. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
If you call a thing bad you do little, if you call a thing good you do much — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Fret not over the irretrievable, but ever act as if thy life were just begun. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
No one knows what he is doing so long as he is acting rightly; but of what is wrong one is always… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Too many parents make life hard for their children by trying, too zealously, to make it easy for them. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
To have seen Italy without having seen Sicily is to not have seen Italy at all, for Sicily is the clue to… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Against criticism a man can neither protest nor defend himself; he must act in spite of it, and then it will gradually… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
The most difficult thing is what is thought to be the simplest; to really see the things which are before your eyes. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Who is the happiest man? He who is alive to the merit of others, and can rejoice in their enjoyment as if… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
The greatest genius will not be worth much if he pretends to draw exclusively from his own resources — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
The effects of good music are not just because it's new; on the contrary music strikes us more the more familiar we… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Then to the depths! - I could as well say height: It's all the same. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Of all peoples the Greeks have dreamt the dream of life best. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Mountains cannot be surmounted except by winding paths. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Smoothly and lightly the golden seed by the furrow is covered. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
What you have inherited from your forefathers, it takes work to make it your own. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
We always hope, and in all things it is better to hope than to despair. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Not art and science only, but patience will be required for the work. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
To measure up to all that is demanded of him, a man must overestimate his capacities — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Nothing should be valued higher than the value of the day. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Human life-everybody lives it, but only to a few is it known. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Thank God when he oppresses you, and again when he releases you. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
When an idea is wanting, a word can always be found to take its place. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Whoever gives himself up to solitude, Ah! he is soon alone. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
If I say to the moment: 'Stay now! You are so beautiful'! — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
The history of science is science itself; the history of the individual, the individual. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
To understand one thing well is better than understanding many things by halves. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Only learn to seize good fortune, for good fortune's always here. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Nothing is more damaging to the truth than an old error. — 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
