The highest happiness, the purest joys of life, wear out at last. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Voluntary dependence is the wonderful form of existence, and how could that be possible without love? — 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
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 only earns his freedom and existence who daily conquers them anew.” — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
If I work incessantly to the last, nature owes me another form of existence when the present one collapses. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
The world is so great and rich, and life so full of variety, that you can never lack occasions for poems. — 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
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
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
If thou wouldst hear what seemly is and fit, inquire of noble woman; they can tell, who in life's common usage hold… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
And what does really matter? That is easy: thinking and doing, doing and thinking--and these are the sum of all wisdom. .… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
At the end of life thoughts hitherto impossible come to the collected mind, like good spirits which let themselves down from the… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
From inaccessible mountain range by way of desert untrod by human foot to the ends of the unknown seas, the breath of… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Everything which is properly business we must keep carefully separate from life. Business requires earnestness and method; life must have a freed… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
If you have a great work in your head, nothing else thrives near it; all other thoughts are repelled, and the pleasure… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
A talent can be cultivated in tranquility; a character only in the rushing stream of life. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
It is not enough to take steps which may someday lead to a goal; each step must be itself a goal and… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
If you want to get pleasure out of life, you must attach value to the world. — 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
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
It is not doing the thing we like to do, but liking the thing we have to do, that makes life blessed. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Talents are nurtured best in solitude, But character on life's tempestuous seas! — 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
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
So dear night the half of life is, And the fairest half indeed. — 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
Seldom in the business and transactions of ordinary life, do we find the sympathy we want. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
A talent is formed in stillness, a character in the world's torrent. — 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
“Talent develops in tranquility, character in the full current of human life.” — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Talent develops in quiet places, character in the full current of human life. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Those who have no hope for a future life are already dead for the present one. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
All theory, my friend, is grey, But green is life's glad golden tree. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
“Nothing is more highly to be prized than the value of each day” — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
“Throughout their whole existence men are blind; So, Faust, be thou like them at last.” — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
“It’s all messy: the hair, the bed, the words, the heart. Life.” — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Life belongs to the living, and he who lives must be prepared for changes. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Genius is formed in quiet, character in the stream of human life — 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
