One should not search for anything behind the phenomena. They themselves are the message. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Yet through delivery orators succeed, I feel that I am far behind indeed. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Rest not. Life is sweeping by; go and dare before you die. Something mighty and sublime, leave behind to conquer time. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Everything that we encounter leaves traces behind. Everything contributes imperceptibly to our education — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Do not, I beg you, look for anything behind phenomena. They are themselves their own lesson. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Each one of us must carry within the proof of immortality, it cannot be given from outside of us. To be sure,… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
The greatest step forward would be to see that everything factual is already theory. The blueness of the sky reveals the basic… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
When toward the Devil's Hose we tread, Woman's a thousand steps behind. [Ger., Denn geht es zu des Bosen Haus Das Weib… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Yet through delivery orators succeed, I feel that I am far behind indeed. [Ger., Allein der Vortrag macht des Redners Gluck, Ich… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Everything factual is, in a sense, theory. The blue of the sky exhibits the basic laws of chromatics. There is no sense… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
The sun had, in the meanwhile, sunk behind the Ettersberg. We felt in the wood the chill of the evening, and drove… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
The flowers of life are but visionary. How many pass away and leave no trace behind! How few yield any fruit,--and the… — 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