The most happy man is he who knows how to bring into relation the end and beginning of his life. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
The world is so great and rich, and life so full of variety, that you can never lack occasions for poems. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
The flowers of life are but illusions. How many fade away and leave no trace. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
A talent can be cultivated in tranquility; a character only in the rushing stream of life. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
It is not enough to take steps which may someday lead to a goal; each step must be itself a goal and… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
He alone deserves liberty and life who daily must win them anew. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
If you want to get pleasure out of life, you must attach value to the world. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Talents are nurtured best in solitude, But character on life's tempestuous seas! — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Take life too seriously, and what is it worth? If the morning wake us to no new joys, if the evening bring… — 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
There would be far less suffering in the world if human beings-God knows why they are made like this-did not use their… — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe Copy Share Image
Life seems so vulgar, so easily content with the commonplace things of every day, and yet it always nurses and cherishes certain… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
To know of someone here and there whom we accord with, who is living on with us, even in silence - -… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
“As long as on the earth endures his life To deal with him have full and free permission; Man's hour on earth… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
All that is alive tends toward color, individuality, specificity, effectiveness and opacity. All that is done with life inclines toward knowledge, abstraction,… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
The assault of our enemies is not part of our life; it is only part of our experience; we throw it off… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
This is the highest wisdom that I own; freedom and life are earned by those alone who conquer them each day anew. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
It is not doing the thing we like to do, but liking the thing we have to do, that makes life blessed. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
You are certainly wrong to compare suicide ... with great accomplishments, since it cannot be considered as anything but a weakness. After… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
If thou wouldst hear what seemly is and fit, inquire of noble woman; they can tell, who in life's common usage hold… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
We are forced to participate in the games of life before we can possibly learn how to use the options in the… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
At the end of life thoughts hitherto impossible come to the collected mind, like good spirits which let themselves down from the… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
From inaccessible mountain range by way of desert untrod by human foot to the ends of the unknown seas, the breath of… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
And what does really matter? That is easy: thinking and doing, doing and thinking--and these are the sum of all wisdom. .… — 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
