What is part of you, you cannot get rid of, even if you were to throw it away. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
If a man knows where to get good advice, it is as though he could supply it himself. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
If you want to reach the infinite, then explore every aspect of the finite. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
If you live criticizing people, you won't have time to love them. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
If you want to get pleasure out of life, you must attach value to the world. — 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
If you wish to advance into the infinite, explore the finite in all directions. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
If thou wouldst hear what seemly is and fit, inquire of noble woman; they can tell, who in life's common usage hold… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
If you have science and art, You also have religion; But if you don't have them, You better have religion. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
If you are convinced of a matter, you must take sides or you don't deserve to succeed. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Many young painters would never have taken their pencils in hand if they could have felt, known, and understood, early enough, what… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Were not the eye made to receive the rays of the sun, it could not behold the sun; if the peculiar power… — 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
A plant is like a self-willed man, out of whom we can obtain all which we desire, if we will only treat… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
If we take people only as they are, then we make them worse; if we treat them as if they were what… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Generally speaking, an author's style is a faithful copy of his mind. If you would write a lucid style, let there first… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
It is not always needful for truth to take a definite shape; it is enough if it hovers about us like a… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Rash combat oft immortalizes man; if he should fall, he is renowned in song; but after-ages reckon not the ceaseless tears which… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
When scholars study a thing, they strive to kill it first, if it's alive; then they have the parts and the'be lost… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Take life too seriously, and what is it worth? If the morning wake us to no new joys, if the evening bring… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Whatever we think out, whatever we take in hand to do, should be perfectly and finally finished, that the world, if it… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
A man does not mind being blamed for his faults, and being punished for them, and he patiently suffers much for them;… — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe Copy Share Image
He who only tastes his error will long dwell with it, will take delight in it as in a singular felicity; while… — 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
We cannot too soon convince ourselves how easily we may be dispensed with in the world. What important personages we imagine ourselves… — 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
People are always talking about originality; but what do they mean? As soon as we are born, the world begins to work… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
When the healthy nature of man acts as a whole, when he feels himself to be in the world as in a… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
It is with art as with love: How can a man of the world,with all his distractions, keep the inwardness which an… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
No one can take from us the joy of the first becoming aware of something, the so-called discovery. But if we also… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Men are so inclined to content themselves with what is commonest; the spirit and the senses so easily grow dead to the… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
At bottom, no real object is unpoetical, if the poet knows how to use it properly. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Well-mannered children could be conceived if the parents were well-mannered. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
You don't love if you don't take the beloved's faults for virtues. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
If ever the Divine appeared on earth, it was in the person of Christ. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
The older we get the more we must limit ourselves if we wish to be active. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
If you call a thing bad you do little, if you call a thing good you do much — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
We should know mankind better if we were not so anxious to resemble one another. — 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
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
