If one doesn't know one's own country, one doesn't have standards for foreign countries. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Nature! We live in her midst and know her not. She is incessantly speaking to us, but betrays not her secret. We… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Some books seem to have been written, not to teach us anything, but to let us know that the author has known… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Certain books seem to be written, not that we might learn from them, but in order that we might see how much… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
We love a girl for very different qualities than understanding. We love her for her beauty, her youth, her mirth, her confidingness,… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
At bottom, no real object is unpoetical, if the poet knows how to use it properly. — 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
Man knows himself only insofar as he knows the world, becoming aware of it if only within himself, and of himself self… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
How happy he who can still hope to lift himself from this sea of error! What we know not, that we are… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
How can one learn to know oneself? Never by introspection, rather by action. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
The use of a thing is only a part of its significance. To know anything thoroughly, to have the full command of… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
He only fears men who does not know them, and he who avoids them will soon misjudge them. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
It will be! the mass is working clearer! Conviction gathers, truer, nearer! The mystery which for Man in Nature lies We dare… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
But one must know where one stands, and where the others wish to go. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Man... knows only when he is satisfied and when he suffers, and only his sufferings and his satisfactions instruct him concerning himself,… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Do people conform to the instructions of us old ones? Each thinks he must know best about himself, and thus many are… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
When you are in conflict with someone, there is one factor that can make the difference between damaging your relationship and deepening… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
What man does not know, Or has not thought of, Wanders in the night Through the labyrinth of the mind. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
It is said, that no one is a hero to their butler. The reason is, that it requires a hero to recognize… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Know'st thou the land where the lemon-trees bloom, Where the gold orange glows in the deep thicket's gloom, Where a wind ever… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
There is nothing more frightful than for a teacher to know only what his scholars are intended to know. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
How can you come to know yourself? Never by thinking, always by doing. Try to do your duty, and you'll know right… — 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
