“Naturalists tell of a noble race of horses that instinctively open a vein with their teeth, when heated and exhausted by a long course, in order to breathe more freely. I am often tempted to open a vein, to procure for myself everlasting liberty. Cento volte ho impugnato una lama per conficcarmela nel cuore. Si dice di una nobile razza… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share
Tolerance comes of age. I see no fault committed that I myself could not have committed at some time or other. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
What have the Germans gained by their boasted freedom of the press, except the liberty of abusing each other as they like? — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
It is as certain as it is strange that truth and error come from one and the same source. Thus it is… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Legislators and revolutionaries who promise both equality and liberty are visionaries and charlatans. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
“Legislators and revolutionaries who promise equality and liberty at the same time, are either psychopaths or mountebanks.” — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
He alone deserves liberty and life who daily must win them anew. — 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
