When an idea is wanting, a word can always be found to take its place. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
How many years you have to keep on doing, until you know what to do and how to do! — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
The greatest thing in this world is not so much where we stand as in what direction we are moving. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
What we agree with leaves us inactive, but contradiction makes us productive. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
One cannot always be a hero, but one can always be a man. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Everything that we encounter leaves traces behind. Everything contributes imperceptibly to our education — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
The world is so empty if one thinks only of mountains, rivers and cities; but to know someone who thinks and feels… — 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
