One never goes further than when they do not know where they are going. — 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
Lay hold of life with both hands, whenever thou mayest seize it, it is interesting. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
He who knows no foreign languages knows nothing of his own. — 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
The history of science is science itself; the history of the individual, the individual. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
If I say to the moment: 'Stay now! You are so beautiful'! — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Whoever aspiring, struggles on, for him there is salvation. — 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
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
The effects of good music are not just because it's new; on the contrary music strikes us more the more familiar we… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
The greatest genius will not be worth much if he pretends to draw exclusively from his own resources — 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 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 is hardest of all? That which seems most simple: to see with your eyes what is before your eyes. — 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
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
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
All lyrical work must, as a whole, be perfectly intelligible, but in some particulars a little unintelligible. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share
We know accurately only when we know little, with knowledge doubt increases. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share
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
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
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
Just begin and the mind grows heated; continue, and the task will be completed! — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share
I look upon all four Gospels as thoroughly genuine, for there shines forth from them the reflected splendor of a sublimity proceeding from Jesus… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share
Whatever we may say against collections, which present authors in a disjointed form, they nevertheless bring about many excellent results. We are not always… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share
