Gray are all the theories, But green is the tree of life. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
As soon as you trust yourself, you will know how to live. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
“Ah, God! but Art is long, And Life, alas! is fleeting.” — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Is it life, I ask, is it even prudence, To bore thyself and bore the students? — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Certain defects are necessary for the existence of individuality. — 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
Plunge boldly into the thick of life, and seize it where you will, it is always interesting. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Too many parents make life hard for their children by trying, too zealously, to make it easy for them. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Each ten years of a man's life has its own fortunes, its own hopes, its own desires. — 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
I have learned much from disease which life could have never taught me anywhere else. — 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
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
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
The misfortune in the state is, that nobody can enjoy life in peace, but that everybody must govern; and in art, that… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
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
“We look back on our life as a thing of broken pieces, because our mistakes and failures are always the first to… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Yes, I have finally arrived to this Capital of the World! I now see all the dreams of my youth coming to… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Most man only care for science so far as they get a living by it, and that they worship even error when… — 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
Of all peoples the Greeks have dreamt the dream of life best. — 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
The important thing in life is to have a great aim, and the determination to attain it. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Art is long, life is short; judgement difficult, opportunity transient. — 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
My worthy friend, gray are all theories And green alone Life's golden tree. — 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
All theory, dear friend, is gray, but the golden tree of life springs ever green. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
I can tell you, honest friend, what to believe: believe life; it teaches better than book or orator. — 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
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
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
All lyrical work must, as a whole, be perfectly intelligible, but in some particulars a little unintelligible. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share
We know accurately only when we know little, with knowledge doubt increases. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share
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
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
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
Just begin and the mind grows heated; continue, and the task will be completed! — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share
I look upon all four Gospels as thoroughly genuine, for there shines forth from them the reflected splendor of a sublimity proceeding from Jesus… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share
Whatever we may say against collections, which present authors in a disjointed form, they nevertheless bring about many excellent results. We are not always… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share
