It is in human nature to relax, when not compelled by personal advantage or disadvantage. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
I have always paid attention to the merits of my enemies, and found it an advantage. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
The written word has this advantage, that it lasts and can await the time when it is allowed to take effect. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Say what you will of fortitude, but show me the man who can patiently endure the laughter of fools when they have… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
To become aware in time when young of the advantages of age; to maintain the advantages of youth in old age: both… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Against great advantages in another, there are no means of defending ourselves except love. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Who is the most sensible person? The one who finds what is to their own advantage in all that happens to them. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
I don't know a greater advantage, than to appreciate the worth of an enemy. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Secrecy has many advantages, for when you tell someone the purpose of any object right away, they often think there is nothing… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
There is no way to face the great advantages of another person than through love. — 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
Every great idea exerts, on first appearing, a tyrannical influence: Hence, the advantages it brings are turned all too soon into disadvantages. — 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 Image
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 Image
All lyrical work must, as a whole, be perfectly intelligible, but in some particulars a little unintelligible. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
We know accurately only when we know little, with knowledge doubt increases. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
