So dear night the half of life is, And the fairest half indeed. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Art is long, life is short; judgement difficult, opportunity transient. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Life is not anything, but an opportunity for something. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Daily life is more instructive than the most effective book. — 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
The important thing in life is to have a great aim, and the determination to attain it. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
People of uncommon abilities generally fall into eccentricities when their sphere of life is not adequate to their abilities. — 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
For many people, one of the most frustrating aspects of life is not being able to understand other people's behavior. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
The rainbow mirrors human aims and action. Think, and more clearly wilt thou grasp it, seeing Life is but light in many-hued… — 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
The spectacle of Nature is always new, for she is always renewing the spectators. Life is her most exquisite invention; and death… — 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