Who longs in solitude to live, Ah! soon his wish will gain: Men hope and love, men get and give, and leave… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Nature reacts not only to physical disease, but also to moral weakness; when the danger increases; she gives us greater courage — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
My counsel is, to force nothing, and rather to trifle and sleep away all unproductive days and hours, than on such days… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
We are the slaves of objects around us, and appear little or important according as these contract or give us room to… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Some of our weaknesses are born in us, others are the result of education; it is a question which of the two… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
No wonder we are all more or less pleased with mediocrity, since it leaves us at rest, and gives the same comfortable… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
If a poet would work politically, he must give himself up to a party; and so soon as he does that, he… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Give me the benefit of your convictions, if you have any; but keep your doubts to yourself, for I have enough of… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
There are two things parents should give their children roots and wings. Roots to give them bearing and a sense of belonging,… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Woe to falsehood! it affords no relief to the breast, like truth; it gives us no comfort, pains him who forges it,… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
If society gives up the right to impose the death penalty, then self-help will appear again and personal vendettas will be around… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
The realization of the self is only possible if one is productive, if one can give birth to one's own potentialities. — 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
