“Ah, God! but Art is long, And Life, alas! is fleeting.” — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
As beauteous is the world, and many a joy Floats through its wide dominion. But, alas, When we would seize the winged… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Alas! how much there is in education, and in our social institutions, to prepare us and our children for insanity. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Alas, that we should be so unwilling to listen to the still and holy yearnings of the heart! A god whispers quite… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
I do not now begin,--I still adore Her whom I early cherish'd in my breast; Then once again with prudence dispossess'd, And… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
We cannot too soon convince ourselves how easily we may be dispensed with in the world. What important personages we imagine ourselves… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Distance... is like futurity. A dim vastness is spread before our souls; the perceptions of our mind are as obscure as those… — 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
