The greatest joy of a thinking man is to have searched the explored and to quietly revere the unexplored. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
“Mephistopholese: But we, more cunning in our cares, Must take our joys before they fade.” — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Hatred is a heavy burden. It sinks the heart deep in the breast, and lies like a tombstone on all joys. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
The highest happiness, the purest joys of life, wear out at last. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Wine rejoices the heart of man and joy is the mother of all virtues. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
When two people are really happy about one another one can generally assume they are mistaken. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
“Who is the happiest of men? He who values the merits of others, and in their pleasure takes joy, even as though… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
As beauteous is the world, and many a joy Floats through its wide dominion. But, alas, When we would seize the winged… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Take life too seriously, and what is it worth? If the morning wake us to no new joys, if the evening bring… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Only by joy and sorrow does a person know anything about themselves and their destiny. They learn what to do and what… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Who is the happiest of men? He who values the merits of others, and in their pleasure takes joy, even as though… — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe Copy Share Image
My days are as happy as those reserved by God for his elect; and whatever be my fate hereafter, I can never… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Take life too seriously, and what is it worth? If the morning wake us to no new joys, if the evening bring… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Does not man lack the force at the very point where he needs it most? And when he soars upward in joy,… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
I must consider more closely this cycle of good and bad days which I find coursing within myself. Passion, attachment, the urge… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
No one can take from us the joy of the first becoming aware of something, the so-called discovery. But if we also demand the honor, it can be utterly spoiled for us, for we are usually not the first. What does discovery mean, and who can say that he has discovered this or that? After all it's pure idiocy to… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share
Must it ever be thus-that the source of our happiness must also be the fountain of our misery? The full and ardent… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
How fair doth Nature Appear again! How bright the sunbeams! How smiles the plain! The flow'rs are bursting From ev'ry bough, And… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Happy is it, indeed, for me that my heart is capable of feeling the same simple and innocent pleasure as the peasant… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
I nothing had, and yet enough for youth--Joy in Illusion, ardent thirst for Truth. Give unrestrained, the old emotion, The bliss that… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Is it not enough that we cannot make one another happy, must we also rob one another of the pleasures that any… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
“When the sound and wholesome nature of man acts as an entirety, when he feels himself in the world as in a… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
“And while throughout the self same motion Repeated on forever flows The thousandfold o er arching ocean Its strong embrace around all… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
“You were happy!” I exclaimed, as I returned quickly to the town, “‘as gay and contented as a man can be!’” God… — 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
