Energy will do anything that can be done in this world. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
The world of empirical morality consists for the most part of nothing but ill will and envy. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
The follies of the wise man are known to himself, but hidden from the world. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
There is no better deliverance from the world than through art, and a man can form no surer bond with it. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Whoever would do good in the world, ought not to deal in censure. We ought not to destroy, but rather construct. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
A talent is formed in stillness, a character in the world's torrent. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
One glance, one word from you gives more pleasure than all the wisdom of this world. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
There is nothing in the world more shameful than establishing one's self on lies and fables. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
There is no surer method of evading the world than by following Art, and no surer method of linking oneself to it… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
In happy ignorance, I sighed for a world I did not know, where I hoped to find every pleasure and enjoyment which… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Whatever we think out, whatever we take in hand to do, should be perfectly and finally finished, that the world, if it… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Misunderstandings and neglect create more confusion in this world than trickery and malice. At any rate, the last two are certainly much… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Rejoice that you have still have a long time to live, before the thought comes to you that there is nothing more… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Anecdotes and maxims are rich treasures to the man of the world, for he knows how to introduce the former at fit… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
The world runs on from one folly to another; and the man who, solely from regard to the opinion of others, and… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
The true poet is called to take in the splendor of the world and for that reason will always be inclined to… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
People are always talking about originality, but what do they mean? As soon as we are born, the world begins to work… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
The world is for thousands a freak show; the images flicker past and vanish; the impressions remain flat and unconnected in the… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
We must not hope to be mowers, And to gather the ripe gold ears, Unless we have first been sowers And water… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
The style of writing required in the great world is distinguished by a free and daring grace, a careless security, a fine… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Wild dreams torment me as I lie. And though a god lives in my heart, though all my power waken at his… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
This being busied with thoughts of immortality is for the noble classes and especially for women with nothing to do. A solid… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
It is quite beyond me how anyone can believe God speaks to us in books and stories. If the world does not… — 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
Wealth and speed are what the world admires, what each pursues. Railways, express mails, steamships and every possible facility for communications are… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Be above it! Make the world serve your purpose, but do not serve it. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
It would not be worth your while to reach the age of seventy if all the wisdom of the world were to… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
You don't have to travel around the world to understand that the sky is blue everywhere — 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
Once more I am a wanderer, a pilgrim, through the world. But what else are you? — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
The world cannot do without great men, but great men are very troublesome to the world. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
There is repetition everywhere, and nothing is found only once in the world. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
And those whom once my song had cheered and gladdened, If still they live, rove through the world now saddened. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
The world is so full of simpletons and madmen, that one need not seek them in a madhouse. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
It is better for you to suffer an injustice than for the world to be without law. Therefore, let everyone submit to… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Talent develops in quiet, alone; character is sharpened in the torrent of the world. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
The march of intellect, which licks all the world into shape, has even reached the devil. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
He who does not see the whole world in his friends, does not deserve that the world should hear of him. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
And we went our separate ways without having understood each other. As in this world nobody understands the other easily. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
To think is easy. To act is hard. But the hardest thing in the world is to act in accordance with your… — 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
