Children can scarcely be fashioned to meet with our likes and our purpose. Just as God did us give them, so must… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
The public wishes itself to be managed like a woman; one must say nothing to it except what it likes to hear. — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe Copy Share Image
Several classical sayings that one likes to repeat had quite a different meaning from the ones later times attributed to them. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
To live as one likes is plebian the noble man aspires to order and law. — 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
