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
“All our most honest toil succeeds only in unconscious moments. For how would the rose blossom if it were aware of the… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Properly speaking, such work is never finished; one must declare it so when, according to time and circumstances, one has done one's… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Many people take no care of their money till they come nearly to the end of it, and others do just the… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
If we could do away with death, we wouldn't object; to do away with capital punishment will be more difficult. Were that… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
There is nothing outside of us that is not at the same time in us, and as the external world has its… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
With the growth of knowledge our ideas must from time to time be organized afresh. The change takes place usually in accordance… — 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
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
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
The day is for mistake and error, sequence of time for success and carrying out. The one who anticipates is master of… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Death is a commingling of eternity with time; in the death of a good man, eternity is seen looking through time. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
What people call the spirit of the times is mostly their own spirit in which the times mirror themselves. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
I am certain that I have been here as I am now a thousand times before, and I hope to return a… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
There is no past that we can bring back by longing for it. There is only an eternally new now that builds… — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe Copy Share Image
It is always a sign of an unproductive time when it concerns itself with petty and technical aspects [in philology], and likewiseit… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
There is no past we can bring back by longing for it. There is only an eternal now that builds and creates… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
“Nothing higher can be accomplished by the epic poet thus interpreting his own time in order to serve the future. (Foreword by… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
The new vulcanism is really a daring attempt to connect the present, incomprehensible world to a past, unknown one. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Rest not. Life is sweeping by; go and dare before you die. Something mighty and sublime, leave behind to conquer time. — 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 destiny of any nation at any given time depends on the opinion of its young people, those under twenty-five. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
It is only necessary to grow old to become more charitable and even indulgent. I see no fault committed by others that… — 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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