Mastery is proven only in limitation, and law alone can give us freedom. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
To live as one likes is plebian the noble man aspires to order and law. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
True works of art are a manifestation of the higher laws of nature. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
We eagerly get hold of a law that serves as a weapon to our passions. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
The older I get the more I trust in the law according to which the rose and the lily bloom. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
If a man sets out to study all the laws, he will have no time left to transgress them. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
If one mistreats citizens of foreign countries, one infringes upon one's duty toward one's own subjects; for thus one exposes themto the… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
It is better for you to suffer an injustice than for the world to be without law. Therefore, let everyone submit to… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
All rights and laws are still transmitted, Like an eternal sickness to the race. [Ger., Es erben sich Gesetz and Rechte Wie… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
As long as you are not aware of the continual law of Die and Be Again, you are merely a vague guest… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Everything factual is, in a sense, theory. The blue of the sky exhibits the basic laws of chromatics. There is no sense… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
The Primal Plant is going be the strangest creature in the world, which Nature herself must envy me. With this model and the key to it, it will be possible to go on for ever inventing plants and know that their existence is logical; that is to say, if they do not actually exist, they could, for they are not… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share
“I know what science this has come to be. All rights and laws are still transmitted Like an eternal sickness of the… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
The iron hand of necessity commands, and her stern decree is supreme law, to which the gods even must submit. In deep… — 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