What is the destiny of man, but to fill up the measure of his sufferings, and to drink his allotted cup of… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
The best genius is that which absorbs and assimilates everything without doing the least violence to its fundamental destiny. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Is this the destiny of man? Is he only happy before he has acquired his reason or after he has lost it? — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Since you know me and my destiny only too well, you probably also know what attracts me to all unfortunate people. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
The destiny of any nation at any given time depends on the opinion of its young people, those under twenty-five. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Only by joy and sorrow does a person know anything about themselves and their destiny. They learn what to do and what… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
What is predestination? Answer: God is more powerful and wiser than we are, therefore he deals with us according to his pleasure. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Destiny grants us our wishes, but in its own way, in order to give us something beyond our wishes. — 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
Take life too seriously, and what is it worth? If the morning wake us to no new joys, if the evening bring… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
It is the strange fate of man, that even in the greatest of evils the fear of the worst continues to haunt… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Man is not born to solve the problems of the universe, but to find out what he has to do... within the… — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe Copy Share Image
Man supposes that he directs his life and governs his actions, when his existence is irretrievably under the control of destiny — 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
