Paternity is based anyhow only upon conviction: I am convinced, therefore, I am the father. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
No two men see the world exactly alike, and different temperaments will apply in different ways a principle that they both acknowledge.… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Few are open to conviction, but the majority of men are open to persuasion — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
The thought of death leaves me in perfect peace, for I have a firm conviction that our spirit is a being of… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Only that type of story deserves to be called moral that shows us that one has the power within oneself to act,… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
No two people see the world exactly alike, and different temperaments will often apply the same principle, recognized by both, differently. Even… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Give me the benefit of your convictions, if you have any; but keep your doubts to yourself, for I have enough of… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
It will be! the mass is working clearer! Conviction gathers, truer, nearer! The mystery which for Man in Nature lies We dare… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
The phrases that men hear or repeat continually, end by becoming convictions and ossify the organs of intelligence. — 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
