Begin by instructing yourself, then you will receive instruction from others. — 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
The philosophers must station themselves in the middle. — 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
In every artist there is a touch of audacity without which no talent is conceivable. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
You shall abstain, shall abstain. That is the eternal song. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
I always seek the good that is in people and leave the bad to Him who made mankind and knows how to… — 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
Nothing is good for a nation but that which arises from its own core and its own general wants, without apish imitation… — 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
The most original of authors are not so because they advance what is new, but more because they know how to say… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Wer fremde Sprachen nicht kennt, weiss nichts von seiner eigenen.He who is ignorant of foreign languages, knows not his own. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
One's roused by this, another finds that fit: Each loves the play for what he brings to it. — 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
Die Zeit ist selbst ein Element. Time is itself an element. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
My poor head is in such a whirl, my mind is all in bits. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
All truths are old, and all that we have to do is recognize and utter them anew. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Who is sure of their own motives can in confidence advance or retreat. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Every man has enough power left to carry out that of which he is convinced. — 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
One that does not think to highly of himself is more than he thinks. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Zweck sein selbst ist jegliches Tier. Each animal is an end in itself. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Yet he who grasps the moment's gift, He is the proper man. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Belief is not the beginning of knowledge - it is the end. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Whatever necessity lays upon thee, endure; whatever she commands, do. — 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
At the moment of commitment the entire universe conspires to assist you. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
To act is easy, to think is hard; to act according to our thought is troublesome. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Beautiful is greater than Good, for it includes the Good. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
The century is advanced, but every individual begins afresh. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Thought expands, but paralyzes; action animates, but narrows. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
One never learns to understand truly anything but what one loves. — 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
