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
If a man knows where to get good advice, it is as though he could supply it himself. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Who is the wisest man? He who neither knows or wishes for anything else than what happens. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Love of truth shows itself in this, that a man knows how to find and value the good in everything. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
But the valid issue is the extent to which man knows how to form and master the material at his command. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Man... knows only when he is satisfied and when he suffers, and only his sufferings and his satisfactions instruct him concerning himself,… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
I respect the man who knows distinctly what he wishes. The greater part of all mischief in the world arises from the… — 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
