The mortal race is far too weak not to grow dizzy on unwonted brights. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
There are people who pay attention to the weaknesses of their friends; that is to no avail. I have always closely watched… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Some of our weaknesses are born in us, others are the result of education; it is a question which of the two… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Ingratitude is always a kind of weakness. I have never known men of ability to be ungrateful. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
The mortal race is far too weak not to grow dizzy on unwonted brights. [Ger., Das sterbliche Geschlecht ist viel zu schwach… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Nature reacts not only to physical disease, but also to moral weakness; when the danger increases; she gives us greater courage — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
You are certainly wrong to compare suicide ... with great accomplishments, since it cannot be considered as anything but a weakness. After… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
“When a nation which has long groaned under the intolerable yoke of a tyrant rises at last and throws off its chains,… — 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