There is a politeness of the heart; this is closely allied to love. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
I know nothing more mocking than a devil that despairs. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Where confidence is wanting, the most beautiful flower in the garland of love is missing. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
All beginnings are delightful; the threshold is the place to pause. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
When I make a mistake everyone can see it, but not when I lie. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Of the book of books most wondrous is the tender book of love. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
You accuse a woman of wavering affections, but don't blame her; she is just looking for a consistent man. — 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
Yes, my love, who soever lives, loses, . . . but he also wins. [Ger., Ja, meine Liebe, wer lebt, verliebt . . . aber er gewinnt auch.] — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Voluntary dependence is the wonderful form of existence, and how could that be possible without love? — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
The highest happiness of man ... is to have probed what is knowable and quietly to revere what is unknowable. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
I can tell you, honest friend, what to believe: believe life; it teaches better than book or orator. — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe Copy Share Image
Seize this very minute. What you can do or dream you can do, begin it. Begin it and the work will be… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
“True love is that which remains for ever the same whether all that it asks is granted or all refused.” — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Girls we love for what they are; young men for what they promise to be. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Whoso is content with pure experience and acts upon it has enough of truth. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
“Where one day she'll be glimpsed: creature who'll scorch me with love?” — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
“Love grants in a moment what toil can hardly achieve in an age.” — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
To make a young couple love each other, it is only necessary to oppose and separate them. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Life is not anything, but an opportunity for something. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
A man doesn't learn to understand anything unless he loves it. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
One does not get to know that one exists until one rediscovers oneself in others. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Against great advantages in another, there are no means of defending ourselves except love. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Love, whose power youth feels, is not suitable for the elderly, just as little as anything that presupposes productivity. It is rare… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
There is a courtesy of the heart; it is allied to love. From its springs the purest courtesy in the outward behavior. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
“That is the true season of love, when we believe that we alone can love, that no one could ever have loved… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
The greatest thing in this world is not so much where we stand as in what direction we are moving. — 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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