Look closely at those who patronize you. Half are unfeeling, half untaught. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
So dear night the half of life is, And the fairest half indeed. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
It is in the half fools and the half wise that the greatest danger lies. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Napoleon for the sake of a good name broke in pieces half the world. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
This is what they all come to who exclusively harp on experience. They do not stop to consider that experience is only… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
The loss of a much-prized treasure is only half felt when we have not regarded its tenure as secure. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Fools and wise men are equally harmless. It is the half-fools and half-wise that are dangerous. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
It is better to be doing the most insignificant thing than to reckon even a half-hour insignificant. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
It is better to do the smallest thing in the world than to hold half an hour to be too small a… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
To understand one thing well is better than understanding many things by halves. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Translators can be considered as busy matchmakers who praise as extremely desirable a half-veiled beauty. They arouse an irresistible yearning for the… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
It is a very hard and troublesome thing to dispose of whole, half, and quarter-mistakes; to sift them and assign the portion… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
There is nothing by which men display their character so much as in what they consider ridiculous... Fools and sensible men are… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
The summit charms us, the steps to it do not; with the heights before our eyes, we like to linger in the… — 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
