The master proves himselin recognizing his limitations. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
The confidant of my vices is my master, though he were my valet. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
All men would be masters of others, and no man is lord of himself. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
The day is for mistake and error, sequence of time for success and carrying out. The one who anticipates is master of… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Master and Doctor are my titles; for ten years now, without repose, I held my erudite recitals and led my pupils by… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
You must be either the servant or the master, the hammer or the anvil. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
The real scholar learns how to evolve the unknown from the known, and draws near the master. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Of the truly creative no one is ever master; it must be left to go its own way. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
The artist has a twofold relation to nature; he is at once her master and her slave. — 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
The man who masters himself is delivered from the force that binds all creatures. — 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
The modern age has a false sense of superiority, because of the great mass of data at its disposal. But the valid… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Many young painters would never have taken their pencils in hand if they could have felt, known, and understood, early enough, what… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Artists have a double relationship towards nature: they are her master and her slave at the same time. They are her slave… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
All ages have said and repeated that one should strive to know one's self. This is a strange demand which no one… — 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
