Of all peoples the Greeks have dreamt the dream of life best. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
While man's desires and aspirations stir he cannot choose but err. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Dream no small dreams for they have no power to move the hearts of men. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
“Anything you can do, or dream you do, begin it: boldness has genius, power, and magic in it.” — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Hell begins the day that God grants you the vision to see all that you could have done, should have done, and… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Seize this very minute. What you can do or dream you can do, begin it. Begin it and the work will be… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
“When a human awakens to a great dream and throws the full force of his soul over it, all the universe conspires… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
A good man, through obscurest aspirations Has still an instinct of the one true way. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Wild dreams torment me as I lie. And though a god lives in my heart, though all my power waken at his… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Yes, I have finally arrived to this Capital of the World! I now see all the dreams of my youth coming to… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Then indecision brings its own delays, And days are lost lamenting o'er lost days. Are you in earnest? Seize this very minute;… — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe Copy Share Image
I examine my own being, and find there a world, but a world rather of imagination and dim desires, than of distinctness… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
“Whatever noblest things the mind received, More and more foreign matter spoils the theme; And when the good of this world is… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
The few of understanding, vision rare, Who veiled not from the herd their hearts, but tried, Poor generous fools, to lay their… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
But who will dare to speak the truth out clear? The few who anything of truth have learned, And foolishly did not… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
“A dim vastness is spread before our souls; the perceptions of our mind are as obscure as those of our vision... But… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Distance... is like futurity. A dim vastness is spread before our souls; the perceptions of our mind are as obscure as those… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
“Nothing is therefore more dangerous than solitude. Our imagination, forced by its very nature to unfold, nourished by the fantastic visions of… — 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
