A useless life is an early death. [Ger., Ein unnutz Leben ist ein fruher Tod.] — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
The mortal race is far too weak not to grow dizzy on unwonted brights. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Let him who believes in immortality enjoy his happiness in silence; he has no reason to give himself airs about it. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
He who serves the public is a poor animal; he worries himself to death and no one thanks him for it. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
He is the happiest man who can see the connection between the end and the beginning of life. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
As long as you are not aware of the continual law of Die and Be Again, you are merely a vague guest… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
“Weary of liberty, he suffered himself to be saddled and bridled, and was ridden to death for his pains.” — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
As long as you don't practice it, this dying and becoming, You are only a dreary guest on this dark earth. — 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
If we could do away with death, we wouldn't object; to do away with capital punishment will be more difficult. Were that… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
The mortal race is far too weak not to grow dizzy on unwonted brights. [Ger., Das sterbliche Geschlecht ist viel zu schwach… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
At all times it has not been the age, but individuals alone, who have worked for knowledge. It was the age which… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
The soul-stirring image of death is no bugbear to the sage, and is looked on without despair by the pious. It teaches… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
The spectacle of Nature is always new, for she is always renewing the spectators. Life is her most exquisite invention; and death… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Love is stronger than death even though it can't stop death from happening, but no matter how hard death tries it can't… — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe Copy Share Image
If society gives up the right to impose the death penalty, then self-help will appear again and personal vendettas will be around… — 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 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
This being busied with thoughts of immortality is for the noble classes and especially for women with nothing to do. A solid… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
“Naturalists tell of a noble race of horses that instinctively open a vein with their teeth, when heated and exhausted by a long course, in order to breathe more freely. I am often tempted to open a vein, to procure for myself everlasting liberty. Cento volte ho impugnato una lama per conficcarmela nel cuore. Si dice di una nobile razza… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share
“The Holy Longing Tell a wise person, or else keep silent, Because the massman will mock it right away. I praise what is truly alive, what longs to be burned to death. In the calm water of the love-nights, where you were begotten, where you have begotten, a strange feeling comes over you when you see the silent candle burning.… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share
When we see the many grave-stones which have fallen in, which have been defaced by the footsteps of the congregation, which lie buried under the ruins of the churches, that have themselves crumbled together over them; we may fancy the life after death to be as a second life, into which man enters in the figure, or the picture or… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share
Death is a commingling of eternity with time; in the death of a good man, eternity is seen looking through time. — 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
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