And step by step, along the path of life, There's nothing true but Heaven. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
So schaff' ich am sausenden Webstuhl der Zeit. Thus at Time's humming loom I ply. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
One says a lot in vain, refusing; The other mainly hears the "No. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
As man is, so is his God. And thus is God oft strangely odd. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
The century is advanced, but every individual begins afresh. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
A man doesn't learn to understand anything unless he loves it. — 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
When I make a mistake everyone can see it, but not when I lie. — 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
It is the nature of grace always to fill spaces that have been empty. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
One that does not think to highly of himself is more than he thinks. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Only learn to seize good fortune, for good fortune's always here. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Who is the happiest man? He who is alive to the merit of others, and can rejoice in their enjoyment as if… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
The most difficult thing is what is thought to be the simplest; to really see the things which are before your eyes. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
He who does not stretch himself according to the coverlet finds his feet uncovered. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
If you inquire what people are like here, I must answer, "The same as everywhere." — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Properly speaking, such work is never finished; one must declare it so when, according to time and circumstances, one has done one's… — 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
