“Ah, God! but Art is long, And Life, alas! is fleeting.” — 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
So dear night the half of life is, And the fairest half indeed. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
He is the happiest man who can see the connection between the end and the beginning of life. — 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
Superstition is the poesy of practical life; hence, a poet is none the worse for being superstitious. — 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
Seldom in the business and transactions of ordinary life, do we find the sympathy we want. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
I can tell you, honest friend, what to believe: believe life; it teaches better that book or orator. — 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
Life seems so vulgar, so easily content with the commonplace things of every day, and yet it always nurses and cherishes certain… — 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 assault of our enemies is not part of our life; it is only part of our experience; we throw it off… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
All that is alive tends toward color, individuality, specificity, effectiveness and opacity. All that is done with life inclines toward knowledge, abstraction,… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
You are certainly wrong to compare suicide ... with great accomplishments, since it cannot be considered as anything but a weakness. After… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
There would be far less suffering in the world if human beings-God knows why they are made like this-did not use their… — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe Copy Share Image
Art is long, life short, judgment difficult, opportunity transient. To act is easy, to think is hard; to act according to our… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Would you require a wretched being, whose life is slowly wasting under a lingering disease, to despatch himself at once by the… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
We must not hope to be mowers, And to gather the ripe gold ears, Unless we have first been sowers And water… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
“The Godhead is effective in the living and not in the dead, in the becoming and the changing, not in the become… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
There are but two roads that lead to an important goal and to the doing of great things: strength and perseverance. Strength… — 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
When I consider the narrow limits within which our active and inquiring faculties are confined; when I see how all our energies… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
So then the year is repeating its old story again. We are come once more, thank God! to its most charming chapter.… — 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
“With their profound thoughts and ideas, which they seek everywhere and project into everything, they make life harder for themselves than they… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Quite often, as life goes on, when we feel completely secure as we go on our way, we suddenly notice that we… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
“The Holy Longing Tell a wise person, or else keep silent, Because the massman will mock it right away. I praise what… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
The dangers of life are infinite, and among them is safety. — 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
Human life-everybody lives it, but only to a few is it known. — 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
