Whatever liberates our spirit, without also giving us mastery over ourselves, is destructive. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Every need whose true satisfaction is denied leads by necessity to faith. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
If you want to reach the infinite, then explore every aspect of the finite. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
The Christian religion, though scattered and abroad will in the end gather itself together at the foot of the cross. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Woe to him who would ascribe something like reason to Chance, and make a religion of surrendering to it. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
The web of this world is woven of Necessity and Chance. Woe to him who has accustomed himself from his youth up… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
The world is so empty if one thinks only of mountains, rivers and cities; but to know someone who thinks and feels… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
We who didn't inherit political power nor are made to acquire riches like nothing better than that which expands and solidifies the… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
I am the spirit that negates. And rightly so, for all that comes to be Deserves to perish wretchedly; 'Twere better nothing… — 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
Words are good, but there is something better. The best is not to be explained by words. The spirit in which we… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Nature does not suffer her veil to be taken from her, and what she does not choose to reveal to the spirit,… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Art is based on a strong sentiment of religion,--on a profound and mighty earnestness; hence it is so prone to co-operate with… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
To have a positive religion is not necessary. To be in harmony with yourself and the universe is what counts, and this… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
I hold to faith in the divine love - which, so many years ago for a brief moment in a little corner… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
The world is so empty if one thinks only of mountains, rivers and cities; but to know someone here and there who… — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe Copy Share Image
At the end of life thoughts hitherto impossible come to the collected mind, like good spirits which let themselves down from the… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Words are good, but there is something better. The best cannot be explained by words. The spirit in which we act is… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Since I have heard often enough that everyone in the end has his own religion, nothing seemed more natural to me than… — 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
