If ever the Divine appeared on earth, it was in the person of Christ. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Once I blazed across the sky, Leaving trails of flame; I fell to earth, and here I lie - Who'll help me up again? -A Shooting Star — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share
Do not give in too much to feelings. A overly sensitive heart is an unhappy possession on this shaky earth. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
The soul of man is like to water; from Heaven it cometh, to Heaven it riseth And then returning to earth, forever… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
The arts are the salt of the earth; as salt relates to food, the arts relate to technology. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Noble be man, Helpful and good! For that alone Sets him apart From every other creature On earth. — 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
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
Energy is the basis of everything. Every Jew, no matter how insignificant, is engaged in some decisive and immediate pursuit of a… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
We learn to treasure what is above this earth; we long for revelation, which nowhere burns more purely and more beautifully than… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
I hold to faith in the divine love - which, so many years ago for a brief moment in a little corner… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
There is nothing new on earth / For a person who lives long and experiences much. / In my years of youthful… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
How fair doth Nature Appear again! How bright the sunbeams! How smiles the plain! The flow'rs are bursting From ev'ry bough, And thousand voices Each bush yields now. And joy and gladness Fill ev'ry breast! Oh earth!-oh sunlight! Oh rapture blest! Oh love! oh loved one! — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share
The world is so empty if one thinks only of mountains, rivers and cities; but to know someone who thinks and feels… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Reason looks at necessity as the basis of the world; reason is able to turn chance in your favor and use it.… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
What is now the foliage moving? Air is still, and hush'd the breeze, Sultriness, this fullness loving, Through the thicket, from the… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
No one is willing to believe that adults too, like children, wander about this earth in a daze and, like children, do… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
I have never looked at foreign countries or gone there but with the purpose of getting to know the general human qualities… — 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
