A great revolution is never the fault of the people, but of the government. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
You don't love if you don't take the beloved's faults for virtues. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
If youth is a fault, it is one that one gets rid of soon enough. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
We rather confess our moral errors, faults, and crimes than our ignorance. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Self-love exaggerates our faults as well as our virtues. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
“This version of “Meister,” with whatever faults it may have,” — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Certain faults are necessary to the individual if he is to exist. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Certain faults are necessary for the existence of the individual. We would resent it if old friends were to get rid of… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
The true poet is called to take in the splendor of the world and for that reason will always be inclined to… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
People do not mind their faults being spread out before them, but they become impatient if called on to give them up. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Tolerance comes of age. I see no fault committed that I myself could not have committed at some time or other. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
It is only necessary to grow old to become more charitable and even indulgent. I see no fault committed by others that… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
What sort of faults may we retain, nay, even cherish in ourselves? Those faults which are rather pleasant than offensive to others. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
We must not take the faults of our youth with us into old age, for age brings along its own defects. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
There is no trifling with nature; it is always true, grave, and severe; it is always in the light, and the faults… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
We love a girl for very different qualities than understanding. We love her for her beauty, her youth, her mirth, her confidingness,… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
People will allow their faults to be shown them; they will let themselves be punished for them; they will patiently endure many… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
A man does not mind being blamed for his faults, and being punished for them, and he patiently suffers much for them;… — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe Copy Share Image
Moral epochs have their course as well as the seasons. We can no more hold them fast than we can hold sun,… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
He loves not who does not see the faults of the beloved as virtues. — 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
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
All lyrical work must, as a whole, be perfectly intelligible, but in some particulars a little unintelligible. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share
We know accurately only when we know little, with knowledge doubt increases. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share
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
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
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
Just begin and the mind grows heated; continue, and the task will be completed! — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share
I look upon all four Gospels as thoroughly genuine, for there shines forth from them the reflected splendor of a sublimity proceeding from Jesus… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share
Whatever we may say against collections, which present authors in a disjointed form, they nevertheless bring about many excellent results. We are not always… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share
