For just when ideas fail, a word comes in to save the situation. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Whoso shrinks from ideas ends by having nothing but sensations. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Everything has been thought of before, but the problem is to think of it again. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
When an idea is wanting, a word can always be found to take its place. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Napoleon affords us an example of the danger of elevating one's self to the absolute, and sacrificing everything to the carrying out… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
“15 "General ideas and great conceit are always a fair way to bring about terrible misfortune.” — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
When she sees the leaves fall, they raise no other idea in her mind than that winter is approaching. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Every great idea exerts, on first appearing, a tyrannical influence: Hence, the advantages it brings are turned all too soon into disadvantages. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Every man must form himself as a particular being, seeking, however, to attain that general idea of which all mankind are constituents. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Daring ideas are like chessmen moved forward; they may be beaten, but they may start a winning game. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Every idea appears at first as a strange visitor, and when it begins to be realized, it is hardly distinguishable from fantasy. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Very few people love others for what they are; rather, they love what they lend them, their own selves, their own idea… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
To live in a great idea means to treat the impossible as though it were possible. It is just the same with… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
To me the external existence of my soul is proved from my idea of activity. If I work incessantly until my death,… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
A school of art or of anything else is to be looked on as a single individual, who keeps talking to himself… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Whenever I hear people talking about liberal ideas, I am always astounded that men should love to fool themselves with empty sounds.… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
The mark of highest originality lies in the ability to develop a familiar idea so fruitfully that it would seem no one… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
The bad thing is that thinking about thought doesn't help at all; one has to have it from nature so that the… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
With the growth of knowledge our ideas must from time to time be organized afresh. The change takes place usually in accordance… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Until one is committed, there is hesitancy, the chance to draw back, always ineffectiveness. Concerning all acts of initiation - creation -… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Idea and experience will never coincide in the center; only through art and action are they united. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
There are but few who have ideas and are, at the same time, capable of action. Ideas enlarge but stymie, action enlivens… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Where a man has a passion for meditating without the capacity of thinking, a particular idea fixes itself fast, and soon creates… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
In the realm of ideas everything depends on enthusiasm... in the real world all rests on perseverance. — 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
