Yet he who grasps the moment's gift, He is the proper man. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
There is nothing more frightful than for a teacher to know only what his scholars are intended to know. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Nothing should be valued higher than the value of the day. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Then to the depths! - I could as well say height: It's all the same. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
To have a positive religion is not necessary. To be in harmony with yourself and the universe is what counts, and this… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
To have seen Italy without having seen Sicily is to not have seen Italy at all, for Sicily is the clue to… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
What is the freedom of the most free? To do what is right! — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
How can we know ourselves? Never by reflection, but only through action. Begin at once to do your duty and immediately you… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
The greatest act of faith takes place when a man finally decides that he is not God. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
The highest happiness of man ... is to have probed what is knowable and quietly to revere what is unknowable. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Marriage is the beginning and pinnacle of civilization. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Those who have no hope for a future life are already dead for the present one. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
No one knows what he is doing so long as he is acting rightly; but of what is wrong one is always… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Nature has neither core nor skin: she’s both at once outside and in. — 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
