That is the way of youth and life in general: that we do not understand the strategy until after the campaign is… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
We are forced to participate in the games of life before we can possibly learn how to use the options in the… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
My days are as happy as those reserved by God for his elect; and whatever be my fate hereafter, I can never… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Those who hope for no other life are dead even for this. — 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
Rest not. Life is sweeping by; go and dare before you die. Something mighty and sublime, leave behind to conquer time. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
The fine emotions whence our lives we mold Lie in the earthly tumult dumb and cold. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
All poetry is supposed to be instructive but in an unnoticeable manner; it is supposed to make us aware of what it… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
I have learned much from disease which life could have never taught me anywhere else. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
One should not wish anyone disagreeable conditions of life; but for him who is involved in them by chance, they are touchstones… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Life teaches us to be less harsh with ourselves and with others. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Normally, the sciences distance themselves from life and the return to it via a detour. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Es irrt der Mensch, so lang er strebt. Man errs as long as he strives. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
The flowers of life are but illusions. How many fade away and leave no trace. — 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
This is the highest wisdom that I own; freedom and life are earned by those alone who conquer them each day anew. — 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
“My father gave my stature tall, And rule of life decorous; My mother my nature genial And joy in making stories; Full… — 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
