You shall abstain, shall abstain. That is the eternal song. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
The eternal feminine doth draw us upward. [Ger., Das Ewig-Weibliche zieht uns hinan.] — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share
Each one of us must carry within the proof of immortality, it cannot be given from outside of us. To be sure,… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
All rights and laws are still transmitted, Like an eternal sickness to the race. [Ger., Es erben sich Gesetz and Rechte Wie… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
The iron hand of necessity commands, and her stern decree is supreme law, to which the gods even must submit. In deep… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
As all Nature's thousands changes But one changeless God proclaim; So in Art's wide kingdom ranges One sole meaning still the same:… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
True observers of nature, although they may think differently, will still agree that everything that is, everything that is observable as a phenomenon, can only exhibit itself in one of two ways. It is either a primal polarity that is able to unify, or it is a primal unity that is able to divide. The operation of nature consists of… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share
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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