Let no one be ashamed to say yes today if yesterday he said no. Or to say no today if yesterday he… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
“Naturalists tell of a noble race of horses that instinctively open a vein with their teeth, when heated and exhausted by a… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
The most happy man is he who knows how to bring into relation the end and beginning of his life. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
To know of someone here and there whom we accord with, who is living on with us, even in silence - -… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
“There dwells a life in every star; With brother spheres it rolls afar Its self-elected, radiant way. Still throb within the great… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
The whole art of living consists in giving up existence in order to exist. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Gray are all the theories, But green is the tree of life. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
If you have a great work in your head, nothing else thrives near it; all other thoughts are repelled, and the pleasure… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
I will say with Lorenzo de Medici that those who do not hope for another life are always dead to this one. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Life is not anything, but an opportunity for something. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
“As long as on the earth endures his life To deal with him have full and free permission; Man's hour on earth… — 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… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
“Talent develops in quiet places, character in the full current of life.” — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Lay hold of life with both hands, whenever thou mayest seize it, it is interesting. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Of all peoples the Greeks have dreamt the dream of life best. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Genius is formed in quiet, character in the stream of human life — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe Copy Share Image
Everything which is properly business we must keep carefully separate from life. Business requires earnestness and method; life must have a freed… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Love grants in a moment what toil can hardly acheive in an age. — 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
A useless life is an early death. [Ger., Ein unnutz Leben ist ein fruher Tod.] — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
My worthy friend, gray are all theories And green alone Life's golden tree. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
The flowers of life are but visionary. How many pass away and leave no trace behind! How few yield any fruit,--and the… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
If you want to get pleasure out of life, you must attach value to the world. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
“In contemplation as in action, we must distinguish between what may be attained and what is unattainable. Without this, little can be… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Life belongs to the living, and he who lives must be prepared for changes. — 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
