“That which issues from the heart alone, Will bend the hearts of others to your own.” — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Oh God, how do the world and heavens confine themselves, when our hearts tremble in their own barriers! — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
My peace is gone, my heart is heavy. [Ger., Meine Ruh ist hin, Mein Herz ist schwer.] — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
I am proud of my heart alone, it is the sole source of everything, all our strenght, happiness & misery. All the… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
In happy ignorance, I sighed for a world I did not know, where I hoped to find every pleasure and enjoyment which… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
If the mass of people hesitate to act, strike with swiftly and with boldness, the brave heart that understands and seizes opportunity… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
As soon as you are in a social setting, you better take away the key to the lock of your heart and… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
We find from experience that yellow excites a warm and agreeable impression… The eye is gladdened, the heart expanded and cheered, a… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Please send me your last pair of shoes, worn out with dancing as you mentioned in your letter, so that I might… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
The fate of the architect is the strangest of all. How often he expends his whole soul, his whole heart and passion,… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
I do not now begin,--I still adore Her whom I early cherish'd in my breast; Then once again with prudence dispossess'd, And… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
It is quite beyond me how anyone can believe God speaks to us in books and stories. If the world does not… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
The few of understanding, vision rare, Who veiled not from the herd their hearts, but tried, Poor generous fools, to lay their… — 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