What one has wished for in youth, in old age one has in abundance. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Music is either sacred or secular. The sacred agrees with its dignity, and here has its greatest effect on life, an effect… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Beware of wishing for anything in youth, because you will get it in middle age. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Love, whose power youth feels, is not suitable for the elderly, just as little as anything that presupposes productivity. It is rare… — 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
Rash combat oft immortalizes man; if he should fall, he is renowned in song; but after-ages reckon not the ceaseless tears which… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
National literature no longer means very much, the age of world literature is due. — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe Copy Share Image
Someone criticized an elderly man for wooing young women. He replied that that was the only way to rejuvenation, which was, afterall,… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Love grants in a moment What toil can hardly achieve in an age. [Ger., In einem Augenblick gewahrt die Liebe Was Muhe… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
We must not take the faults of our youth with us into old age, for age brings along its own defects. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Old age is never honored among us, but only indulged, as childhood is; and old men lose one of the most precious… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Error is acceptable as long as we are young; but one must not drag it along into old age. — 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
