Those only obtain love, for the most part, who seek it not. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
There is no way to face the great advantages of another person than through love. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
All truths are old, and all that we have to do is recognize and utter them anew. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
There is no remedy but love for the great superiority of others — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Those who have no hope for a future life are already dead for the present one. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
The first and last thing required of genius is the love of truth. [Ger., Das erste und letzte, was vom Genie gefordert… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
To be loved for what one is, is the greatest exception. The great majority love in others only what they lend him,… — 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
Such is the frailty of man that even where he makes the truest and most forcible impression in the memory, in the… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Flowers are the beautiful hieroglyphics of nature with which she indicates how much she loves us. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
A king there was once reigning, Who had a goodly flea, Him loved he without feigning, As his own son were he! — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
In praising or loving a child, we love and praise not that which is, but that which we hope for. — 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
You don't love if you don't take the beloved's faults for virtues. — 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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