He is a man whom it is impossible to please, because he is never pleased with himself. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
To understand one thing well is better than understanding many things by halves. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
To make a young couple love each other, it is only necessary to oppose and separate them. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
He alone deserves liberty and life who daily must win them anew. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Not art and science only, but patience will be required for the work. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
All professional men are handicapped by not being allowed to ignore things which are useless. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Fret not over the irretrievable, but ever act as if thy life were just begun. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Against criticism a man can neither protest nor defend himself; he must act in spite of it, and then it will gradually… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Too many parents make life hard for their children by trying, too zealously, to make it easy for them. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Seize this very minute. What you can do or dream you can do, begin it. Begin it and the work will be… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
What you have inherited from your forefathers, it takes work to make it your own. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
The history of science is science itself; the history of the individual, the individual. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
What makes people happy is activity; changing evil itself into good by power, working in a God like manner. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
It is ever true that he who does nothing for others, does nothing for himself." ~ Goethe — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
The best benefit we derive from history is the enthusiasm it excites. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
“Each one's no longer conscious Of the high wall, or the rest: Since the one enduring fortress, Is the soldier's iron breast.… — 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
