Water its living strength first shows, When obstacles its course oppose. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Everything that we call Invention or Discovery in the higher sense of the word is the serious exercise and activity of an… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Moral epochs have their course as well as the seasons. We can no more hold them fast than we can hold sun,… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Hypotheses are only the pieces of scaffolding which are erected round a building during the course of construction, and which are taken… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Nobody, they say, is a hero to his valet. Of course; for a man must be a hero to understand a hero.… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Human life runs its course in the metamorphosis between receiving and giving. — 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
