In the end we retain from our studies only that which we practically apply. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Deny yourself! You must deny yourself! That is the song that never ends. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Unlimited activity, of whatever kind, must end in bankruptcy. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Those who make use of devotion as a means and end generally are hypocrites. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Whoso shrinks from ideas ends by having nothing but sensations. — 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
Belief is not the beginning of knowledge - it is the end. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Zweck sein selbst ist jegliches Tier. Each animal is an end in itself. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
The phrases that men hear or repeat continually, end by becoming convictions and ossify the organs of intelligence. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Piety is not an end, but a means: a means of attaining the highest culture by the purest tranquility of soul. Hence… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Nature is beneficent. I praise her and all her works. She is silent and wise. She is cunning, but for good ends.… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Since I have heard often enough that everyone in the end has his own religion, nothing seemed more natural to me than… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
At the end of life thoughts hitherto impossible come to the collected mind, like good spirits which let themselves down from the… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
From inaccessible mountain range by way of desert untrod by human foot to the ends of the unknown seas, the breath of… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Wherever a man may happen to turn, whatever a man may undertake, he will always end up by returning to the path… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Thou art in the end what thou art. Put on wigs with millions of curls, set thy foot upon ell-high rocks. Thou… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Whenever I hear people talking about liberal ideas, I am always astounded that men should love to fool themselves with empty sounds.… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
However often we turn to it [the Koran] at first disgusting us each time afresh, it soon attracts, astounds, and in the… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
After all, poets shouldn't be their own interpreters and shouldn't carefully dissect their poems into everyday prose; that would mean the end… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
People are always talking about originality; but what do they mean? As soon as we are born, the world begins to work… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Whatever is the lot of humankind I want to taste within my deepest self. I want to seize the highest and the… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
When I consider the narrow limits within which our active and inquiring faculties are confined; when I see how all our energies… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Individuality of expression is the beginning and end of all art. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
A judge who cannot punish, in the end associates themselves with the criminal. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
People are always talking about originality, but what do they mean? As soon as we are born, the world begins to work… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
In the end we are all separate: our stories, no matter how similar, come to a fork and diverge. We are drawn… — 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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