The greatest genius will not be worth much if he pretends to draw exclusively from his own resources — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
If youth is a fault, it is one that one gets rid of soon enough. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Wood burns because it has the proper stuff for that purpose in it; and a man becomes renowned because he has the… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
The bed of flowers Loosens amain, The beauteous snowdrops Droop o'er the plain. The crocus opens Its glowing bud, Like emeralds others,… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
The poet should seize the Particular, and he should, if there be anything sound in it, thus represent the Universal. — 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
One ought, everyday, to hear a song, read a fine poem, and, if possible, to speak a few reasonable words. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Look at a man the way he is and he only becomes worse, but look at him as if he were what… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
If you want someone to develop a specific trait, treat them as though they already had it. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
If I say to the moment: 'Stay now! You are so beautiful'! — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
If I work incessantly to the last, nature owes me another form of existence when the present one collapses. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Certain faults are necessary for the existence of the individual. We would resent it if old friends were to get rid of… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
If you don't know foreign languages, you don't know anything about your own. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Higher aims are in themselves more valuable, even if unfulfilled, than lower ones quite attained. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Ah, how often I've cursed those foolish pages, That showed my youthful sufferings to everyone! If Werther had been my brother, and… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Let no one be ashamed to say yes today if yesterday he said no. Or to say no today if yesterday he… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Enjoy what thou has inherited from thy sires if thou wouldn't really possess it. What we employ and use is never an… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
If you wish a wise answer, you must put a rational question. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
If a good person does you wrong, act as though you had not noticed it. If we practice and eye for an… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
If we are out of synch with ourselves, everything is out of synch for us. — 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
If the world does improve on the whole, yet youth must always begin anew, and go through the stages of culture from… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
The Primal Plant is going be the strangest creature in the world, which Nature herself must envy me. With this model and… — 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
