For many people, one of the most frustrating aspects of life is not being able to understand other people's behavior. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
By the artist's seizing any one object from nature, that object no longer is part of nature. One can go so far… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
If a man or woman is born ten years sooner or later, their whole aspect and performance shall be different. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Our destiny often looks like a fruit-tree in winter. Who would think from its pitiable aspect that those rigid boughs, those rough… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
If you want to reach the infinite, then explore every aspect of the finite. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
It is always a sign of an unproductive time when it concerns itself with petty and technical aspects [in philology], and likewiseit… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
These auspicious aspects, which the astrologers subsequently interpreted for me, may have been the causes of my preservation. — 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
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