Life teaches us to be less harsh with ourselves and with others. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
The art of living rightly is like all arts; it must be learned and practiced with incessant care. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Love grants in a moment what toil can hardly acheive in an age. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
He only earns his freedom and his life Who takes them every day by storm. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Deny yourself! You must deny yourself! That is the song that never ends. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
One never goes so far as when one doesn't know where one is going. — 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
If you've never eaten while crying you don t know what life tastes like. — 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
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
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
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
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
I examine my own being, and find there a world, but a world rather of imagination and dim desires, than of distinctness… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
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
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
Human life runs its course in the metamorphosis between receiving and giving. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Man supposes that he directs his life and governs his actions, when his existence is irretrievably under the control of destiny — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Superstition is the poetry of life. It is inherent in man's nature; and when we think it is wholly eradicated, it takes… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Music is either sacred or secular. The sacred agrees with its dignity, and here has its greatest effect on life, an effect… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
It is belief in the Bible, the fruits of deep meditation, which has served me as the guide of my moral and… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
A life without love, without the presence of the beloved, is nothing but a mere magic-lantern show. We draw out slide after… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
What is the true test of character unless it be its progressive development in the bustle and turmoil, in the action and… — 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
