Look closely at those who patronize you. Half are unfeeling, half untaught. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Why look for conspiracy when stupidity can explain so much — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
No one feels himself easy in a garden which does not look like the open country. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Do not, I beg you, look for anything behind phenomena. They are themselves their own lesson. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Every day look at a beautiful picture, read a beautiful poem, listen to some beautiful music, and if possible, say some reasonable… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Just as, out of habit, one consults a run-down clock as though it were still going, so too one may look at… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Let us live in as small a circle as we will, we are either debtors or creditors before we have had time… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
The little that is completed, vanishes from the sight of one who looks forward to what is still to do. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Why go further and further, Look, happiness is right here. Learn how to grab hold of luck, For luck is always there. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
He who would reproach an author for obscurity should look into his own mind to see whether it is quite clear there.… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
I look upon all four Gospels as thoroughly genuine, for there shines forth from them the reflected splendor of a sublimity proceeding… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Viewed from the summit of reason, all life looks like a malignant disease and the world like a madhouse. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Our destiny often looks like a fruit-tree in winter. Who would think from its pitiable aspect that those rigid boughs, those rough… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Life seems so vulgar, so easily content with the commonplace things of every day, and yet it always nurses and cherishes certain… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
The greatest step forward would be to see that everything factual is already theory. The blueness of the sky reveals the basic… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
To appear at church every Sunday; to look down upon, and let himself be looked at for an hour by the congregation,… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
None are so hopelessly enslaved, as those who falsely believe they are free. The truth has been kept from the depth of… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Reason looks at necessity as the basis of the world; reason is able to turn chance in your favor and use it.… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Look at a man the way he is and he only becomes worse, but look at him as if he were what… — 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
