The force of a language does not consist of rejecting what is foreign but of swallowing it. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
One that does not think to highly of himself is more than he thinks. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Art is constitutive-the artist determines beauty. He does not take it over. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
It is ever true that he who does nothing for others, does nothing for himself." ~ Goethe — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Democracy does not race, it reaches the finish slowly but surely. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Time is a strange thing. It is a whimsical tyrant, which in every century has a different face for all that one… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Nature does not suffer her veil to be taken from her, and what she does not choose to reveal to the spirit,… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Everything we do has a result. But that which is right and prudent does not always lead to good, nor the contrary… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
If each one does their duty as an individual and if each one works in their own proper vocation, it will be… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
The question "From where does the poet get it?" addresses only the what, nobody learns anything about the how when asking that… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Correction does much, but encouragement does more. Encouragement after censure is as the sun after a shower. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
What man does not know, Or has not thought of, Wanders in the night Through the labyrinth of the mind. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Music, in the best sense, does not require novelty; nay, the older it is, and the more we are accustomed to it,… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Does not man lack the force at the very point where he needs it most? And when he soars upward in joy,… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Would you require a wretched being, whose life is slowly wasting under a lingering disease, to despatch himself at once by the… — 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
There is nothing in the world more pitiable than an irresolute man, oscillating between two feelings, who would willingly unite the two… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
And what does really matter? That is easy: thinking and doing, doing and thinking--and these are the sum of all wisdom. .… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
In all things, to serve from the lowest station upwards is necessary. To restrict yourself to a trade is best. For the… — 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
It is much easier to meet with error than to find truth; error is on the surface, and can be more easily… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
No one can take from us the joy of the first becoming aware of something, the so-called discovery. But if we also… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Time does not relinquish its rights, either over human beings or over mountains. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
He only fears men who does not know them, and he who avoids them will soon misjudge them. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
There is no outward sign of true courtesy that does not rest on a deep moral foundation. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
No one feels himself easy in a garden which does not look like the open country. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Instruction does much, but encouragement everything." (Letter to A.F. Oeser, Nov. 9, 1768) — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
One does not get to know that one exists until one rediscovers oneself in others. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
He who does not know foreign languages does not know anything about his own. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
In art it's not the thinking that does the job, but making. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
He loves not who does not see the faults of the beloved as virtues. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
One alone does not help, but rather he who unites with many at the right moment. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
On the pinnacle of success man does not stand firm long. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
He who does not expect a million readers should not write a line. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
He who does not stretch himself according to the coverlet finds his feet uncovered. — 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
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
All lyrical work must, as a whole, be perfectly intelligible, but in some particulars a little unintelligible. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share
We know accurately only when we know little, with knowledge doubt increases. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share
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
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
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
Just begin and the mind grows heated; continue, and the task will be completed! — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share
I look upon all four Gospels as thoroughly genuine, for there shines forth from them the reflected splendor of a sublimity proceeding from Jesus… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share
Whatever we may say against collections, which present authors in a disjointed form, they nevertheless bring about many excellent results. We are not always… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share
