I have always paid attention to the merits of my enemies, and found it an advantage. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Commonplaceness, the surrender to the average, that good which is not bad but still the enemy of the best - That is our besetting danger. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share
I don't know a greater advantage, than to appreciate the worth of an enemy. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Our friends show us what we can do; our enemies teach us what we must do. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
The assault of our enemies is not part of our life; it is only part of our experience; we throw it off… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
I have heard myself accused of being an opponent, an enemy of mathematics, which no one can value more highly than I,… — 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
