One man's word is no man's word; we should quietly hear both sides. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
When two men quarrel, who owns the cooler head is the more to blame. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
The happiest man is the one who finds happiness at home. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
The greatest act of faith takes place when a man finally decides that he is not God. — 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
First let a man teach himself, and then he will be taught by others. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
To a valet no man is a hero. [Ger., Es gibt fur den Kammerdiener keiner Helden.] — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
What a day it is when we must envy the men in their graves. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Let's plunge ourselves into the roar of time, the whirl of accident; may pain and pleasure, success and failure, shift as they… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
A man's name is not like a mantle which merely hangs about him...but a perfectly fitting garment, which, like the skin, has… — 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
A man avails himself of the truth so long as it is serviceable; but he seizes on what is false with a… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
It is delightful to transport one's self into the spirit of the past, to see how a wise man has thought before… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
A vain man can never be altogether rude. Desirous as he is of pleasing, he fashions his manners after those of others. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
A man may twist as he pleases, and do what he pleases, but he inevitably comes back to the track to which… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Man can find no better retreat from the world than art, and man can find no stronger link with the world than… — 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
Every bird has its decoy, and every man is led and misled in his own peculiar way. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
The best fortune that can fall to a man is that which corrects his defects and makes up for his failings. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Whoever, in middle age, attempts to realize the wishes and hopes of his early youth, invariably deceives himself. Each ten years of… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Men in a state of nature, uncivilized nations, children, have a great fondness for colors in their utmost brightness, and especially for… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Neither art thou the man to catch the fiend and hold him! [Ger., Du bist noch nicht der Mann den Teufel festzuhalten. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
The theater has often been at variance with the pulpit; they ought not to quarrel. How much is it to be wished… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Man knows himself only insofar as he knows the world, becoming aware of it if only within himself, and of himself self… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Every man must form himself as a particular being, seeking, however, to attain that general idea of which all mankind are constituents. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
No two men see the world exactly alike, and different temperaments will apply in different ways a principle that they both acknowledge. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Whether one show one's self a man of genius in science or compose a song, the only point is, whether the thought,… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
The most foolish of all errors is for clever young men to believe that they forfeit their originality in recognizing a truth… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Forget not that the man who cannot enjoy his own natural gifts in silence, and find his reward in the exercise of… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Sound and sufficient reason falls, after all, to the share of but few men, and those few men exert their influence in… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
If any man wish to write in a clear style, let him be first clear in his thoughts; and if any would… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Man is not born to solve the problem of the universe, but to find out what he has to do; and to… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
A vain man can never be utterly ruthless: he wants to win applause and therefore he accommodates himself to others — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
A man would create another man if one did not already exist, but a woman might live an eternity without even thinking… — 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
What do people mean when they talk about unhappiness? It is not so much unhappiness as impatience that from time to time… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
The greatest piece of folly is that every man thinks himself compelled to hand down what people think they have known. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
A man is not little when he finds it difficult to cope with circumstances, but when circumstances overmaster him. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
The greater part of all the mischief in the world arises from the fact that men do not sufficiently understand their own… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
It is a great pleasure to transport one's-self into the spirit of the times; to see how a wise man has thought… — 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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