The few of understanding, vision rare, Who veiled not from the herd their hearts, but tried, Poor generous fools, to lay their… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Animals, we have been told, are taught by their organs. Yes, I would add, and so are men, but men have this… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Look at a man the way he is and he only becomes worse, but look at him as if he were what… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Men are so constituted that every one undertakes what he sees another successful in, whether he has aptitude for it or not. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
As in Rome there is, apart from the Romans, a population of statues, so apart from this real world there is a… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Prudent and active men, who know their strength and use it with limit and circumspection, alone go far in the affairs of… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Man cannot persist long in a conscious state, he must throw himself back into the unconscious, for his root lives there. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Nature understands no jesting. She is always true, always serious, always severe. She is always right, and the errors are always those… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Man supposes that he directs his life and governs his actions, when his existence is irretrievably under the control of destiny — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Are we not also married to conscience which we would love to get rid of often enough since it is more bothersome… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Who is the happiest of men? He who values the merits of others, and in their pleasure takes joy, even as though… — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe Copy Share Image
The suffering may be moral or physical; and in my opinion it is just as absurd to call a man a coward… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
A flippant, frivolous man may ridicule others, may controvert them, scorn them; but he who has any respect for himself seems to… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
There is no permanence in doubt; it incites the mind to closer inquiry and experiment, from which, if rightly managed, certainty proceeds,… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Man can only endure a certain degree of unhappiness; what is beyond that either annihilates him or passes by him and leaves… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
One should not wish anyone disagreeable conditions of life; but for him who is involved in them by chance, they are touchstones… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Man's highest merit always is, as much as possible, to rule external circumstances and as little as possible to let himself be… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
The phrases that men hear or repeat continually, end by becoming convictions and ossify the organs of intelligence. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Energy will do anything that can be done in the world; and no talents, no circumstances, no opportunities will make a two-legged… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Where a man has a passion for meditating without the capacity of thinking, a particular idea fixes itself fast, and soon creates… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
As a man is, so is his God; therefore God was so often an object of mockery. [Ger., Wie einer ist, so… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Habit is a man's sole comfort. We dislike doing without even unpleasant things to which we have become accustomed. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Against criticism a man can neither protest nor defend himself; he must act in spite of it, and then it will gradually… — 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
A resolution that is communicated is no longer within thy power; thy attentions become now the plaything of chance; he who would… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Who is the happiest man? He who is alive to the merit of others, and can rejoice in their enjoyment as if… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Man usually believes, if only words he hears, That also with them goes material for thinking. [Ger., Gewohnlich glaubt der Mensch, wenn… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
A noble man is led far by woman's gentle words. [Ger., Ein edler Mann wird durch ein gutes Wort Der Frauen weit… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Beloved brother, let us not forget that man can never get away from himself. [Ger., Lass uns, geliebter Bruder, nicht vergessen, Dass… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
If you treat men the way they are you never improve them. If you treat them the way you want them to… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Most man only care for science so far as they get a living by it, and that they worship even error when… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
A man should hear a little music, read a little poetry, and see a fine picture every day of his life, in… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Poetry is the universal possession of mankind, revealing itself everywhere, and at all times, in hundreds and hundreds of men. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
The art of governing is a great metier, requiring the whole man, and it is therefore not well for a ruler to… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Beware of her fair hair, for she excels All women in the magic of her locks; And when she winds them round… — 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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