The greatest difficulties lie where we are not looking for them. — 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
When I make a mistake everyone can see it, but not when I lie. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
It is in the half fools and the half wise that the greatest danger lies. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
In politics as on a sickbed men toss from side to side in hope of lying more comfortably. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Truth is a torch but a tremendous one. That is why we hurry past it, shielding our eyes, indeed, in fear of… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Hatred is a heavy burden. It sinks the heart deep in the breast, and lies like a tombstone on all joys. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
In politics people throw themselves, as on a sickbed, from one side to the other in the belief they will lie more… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Once I blazed across the sky, Leaving trails of flame; I fell to earth, and here I lie - Who'll help me… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
The fine emotions whence our lives we mold Lie in the earthly tumult dumb and cold. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
When I err every one can see it, but not when I lie. [Ger., Wenn ich irre kann es jeder bemerken; wenn… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
“What I possess, I see far distant lying, And what I lost, grows real and undying.” — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Moral epochs have their course as well as the seasons. We can no more hold them fast than we can hold sun,… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
It will be! the mass is working clearer! Conviction gathers, truer, nearer! The mystery which for Man in Nature lies We dare… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Wild dreams torment me as I lie. And though a god lives in my heart, though all my power waken at his… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
The mark of highest originality lies in the ability to develop a familiar idea so fruitfully that it would seem no one… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
It is easier to perceive error than to find truth, for the former lies on the surface and is easily seen, while… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Over the trackless past, somewhere, Lie the lost days of our tropic youth, Only regained by faith and prayer, Only recalled by… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
None are so hopelessly enslaved, as those who falsely believe they are free. The truth has been kept from the depth of… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
There is nothing by which men display their character so much as in what they consider ridiculous... Fools and sensible men are… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Don't feel guilty if you don't immediately love your stepchildren as you do your own, or as much as you think you… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
When we see the many grave-stones which have fallen in, which have been defaced by the footsteps of the congregation, which lie… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Our wishes are presentiments of the abilities that lie in us, harbingers of what we will be able to accomplish. — 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
The beginning of faith is the beginning of fruitfulness; but the beginning of unbelief, however glittering, is empty. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Wouldst thou ever roam abroad? See, what is good lies by thy side. Only learn to catch happiness, for happiness is ever… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
A human being needs only a small plot of ground on which to be happy, and even less to lie beneath. — 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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