Nothing can be compared to the new life that the discovery of another country provides for a thoughtful person. Although I am… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
“So much simplicity with so much understanding — so mild, and yet so resolute — a mind so placid, and a life so active.” — 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
“When the sound and wholesome nature of man acts as an entirety, when he feels himself in the world as in a… — 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
There is nothing in life so irrational, that good sense and chance may not set it to rights; nothing so rational, that… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
If you've never eaten while crying you don t know what life tastes like. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
It is one of Heaven's best gifts to hold such a dear creature in one's arms. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Every individual who is not creative has a negative, narrow, exclusive taste and succeeds in depriving creative being of its energy and… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
For the butterfly, mating and propagation involve the sacrifice of life, for the human being, the sacrifice of beauty. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Woman is mistress of the art of completely imbittering the life of the person on whom she depends. — 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
If we examine every stage of our lives, we find that from our first breath to our last we are under the… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
The greatest thing in this world is not so much where we stand as in what direction we are moving. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
He who is and remains true to himself and to others has the most attractive quality of the greatest talent. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Everything that we encounter leaves traces behind. Everything contributes imperceptibly to our education — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
A state of affairs which leads to daily vexation is not the right state. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
No man learns to know his inmost nature by introspection, for he rates himself sometimes too low, and often too high, by… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
The real terror of beholding sharks feeding is that that may be all there is to life. A razor-toothed paragon of the… — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe Copy Share Image
To know someone here or there with whom you can feel there is understanding in spite of distances or thoughts expressed That… — 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
