The history of science is science itself; the history of the individual, the individual. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Nothing is more damaging to the truth than an old error. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Whoever aspiring, struggles on, for him there is salvation. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Nature has neither core nor skin: she’s both at once outside and in. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
If you inquire what people are like here, I must answer, "The same as everywhere." — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
“Only air and light and the love of friends! Let no man lose heart who still has these.” — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
There is a politeness of the heart; this is closely allied to love. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
To be loved for what one is, is the greatest exception. The great majority love in others only what they lend him,… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
What you have inherited from your fathers, earn over again for yourselves, or it will not be yours. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
“There are men who love their like and seek it; others love their opposite and follow after it.” — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Flowers are the beautiful hieroglyphics of nature with which she indicates how much she loves us. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Such is the frailty of man that even where he makes the truest and most forcible impression in the memory, in the… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
For that is love's nature that it lays claim to exclusive right and that all other claims are nil. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
The history of knowledge is a great fugue in which the voices of the nations one after the other emerge. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
“Whatever truths or fables you may find in a thousand books, it is all a tower of Babel unless love holds it… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
The first and last thing required of genius is the love of truth. — 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
What you have inherited from your forefathers, it takes work to make it your own. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Confronted by outstanding merit, there is no way of saving one's ego except by love — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
We always hope, and in all things it is better to hope than to despair. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
He loves not who does not see the faults of the beloved as virtues. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Whoever gives himself up to solitude, Ah! he is soon alone. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
One never learns to understand truly anything but what one loves. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
If you call a thing bad you do little, if you call a thing good you do much — 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
Fret not over the irretrievable, but ever act as if thy life were just begun. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
You don't love if you don't take the beloved's faults for virtues. — 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
Beautiful is greater than Good, for it includes the Good. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Thought expands, but paralyzes; action animates, but narrows. — 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
