I hate every violent overthrow, because as much is destroyed as is gained by it. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
I hate all explanations; they who make them deceive either themselves or the other party,-generally both. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
I hate everything that merely instructs me without augmenting or directly invigorating my activity. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
I hate all bungling as I do sin, but particularly bungling in politics, which leads to the misery and ruin of many… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Hatred is active, and envy passive dislike; there is but one step from envy to hate. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Impotent hatred is the most horrible of all emotions; one should hate nobody whom one cannot destroy. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Give me those days with heart in riot, The depths of bliss that touched on pain, The force of hate, and love's… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
I nothing had, and yet enough for youth--Joy in Illusion, ardent thirst for Truth. Give unrestrained, the old emotion, The bliss that… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Nature is beneficent. I praise her and all her works. She is silent and wise. She is cunning, but for good ends.… — 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 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
