To live as one likes is plebian the noble man aspires to order and law. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Fret not over the irretrievable, but ever act as if thy life were just begun. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Thought expands, but paralyzes; action animates, but narrows. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
You shall abstain, shall abstain. That is the eternal song. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
“The intelligent man finds everything laughable, the sensible man hardly anything.” — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
All truths are old, and all that we have to do is recognize and utter them anew. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
What is the freedom of the most free? To do what is right! — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
To have seen Italy without having seen Sicily is to not have seen Italy at all, for Sicily is the clue to… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
It is ever true that he who does nothing for others, does nothing for himself." ~ Goethe — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
One says a lot in vain, refusing; The other mainly hears the "No. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
One never goes further than when they do not know where they are going. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Retirement: When you quit working just before your heart does — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe Copy Share Image
Nature has neither core nor skin: she’s both at once outside and in. — 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
