I consider him of no account who esteems himself just as the popular breath may chance to raise him. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
I let everyone follow his own bent, that I may be free to follow mine. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Let your trouble be Light will follow dark Though the heaven falls You may hear the lark. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Everything in the world may be endured except continual prosperity. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
To like things like, whatever one may ail; There is certain help. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
A great deal may be done by severity, more by love, but most by clear discernment and impartial justice. — 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
Man, be he who he may, experiences a last piece of good fortune and a last day. [Ger., Der Mensch erfahrt, er… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
I have observed that as long as one lives and bestirs himself, he can always find food and raiment, though it may… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Man is a simple being, and however rich, varied, and unfathomable he may be, the cycle of his situations is soon run… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Let's plunge ourselves into the roar of time, the whirl of accident; may pain and pleasure, success and failure, shift as they… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
A man may twist as he pleases, and do what he pleases, but he inevitably comes back to the track to which… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
People may live as much retired from the world as they please; but sooner or later, before they are aware, they will… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
There are but two roads that lead to an important goal and to the doing of great things: strength and perseverance. Strength… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Take life too seriously, and what is it worth? If the morning wake us to no new joys, if the evening bring… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
The assault of our enemies is not part of our life; it is only part of our experience; we throw it off… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
What is now the foliage moving? Air is still, and hush'd the breeze, Sultriness, this fullness loving, Through the thicket, from the… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
The artist may be well advised to keep his work to himself till it is completed, because no one can readily help… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Wood burns because it has the proper stuff for that purpose in it; and a man becomes renowned because he has the necessary stuff in him. Renown is not to be sought, and all pursuit of it is vain. A person may, indeed, by skillful conduct and various artificial means, make a sort of name for himself; but if the… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share
Whenever I hear people talking about liberal ideas, I am always astounded that men should love to fool themselves with empty sounds.… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
A man should hear a little music, read a little poetry, and see a fine picture every day of his life, in… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
True observers of nature, although they may think differently, will still agree that everything that is, everything that is observable as a phenomenon, can only exhibit itself in one of two ways. It is either a primal polarity that is able to unify, or it is a primal unity that is able to divide. The operation of nature consists of… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share
Is it not enough that we cannot make one another happy, must we also rob one another of the pleasures that any… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
We cannot too soon convince ourselves how easily we may be dispensed with in the world. What important personages we imagine ourselves… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
No two men see the world exactly alike, and different temperaments will apply in different ways a principle that they both acknowledge. The same man will, indeed, often see and judge the same things differently on different occasions: early convictions must give way to more mature ones. Nevertheless, may not the opinions that a man holds and expresses withstand all… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share
When we see the many grave-stones which have fallen in, which have been defaced by the footsteps of the congregation, which lie buried under the ruins of the churches, that have themselves crumbled together over them; we may fancy the life after death to be as a second life, into which man enters in the figure, or the picture or… — 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 so composed, so full of wisdom, that we are able to take in at once the whole scope of a work according to its merits. Do we not mark in a book passages which seem to… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share
No limit, no definition, may restrict the range or depth of the human spirit's passage into its own secrets or the world's. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Wherever a man may happen to turn, whatever a man may undertake, he will always end up by returning to the path… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
The work of art may have a moral effect, but to demand moral purpose from the artist is to make him ruin… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
It is not enough to take steps which may someday lead to a goal; each step must be itself a goal and… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Light has called forth one organ to become its like, and thus the eye is formed by the light and for the… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
These auspicious aspects, which the astrologers subsequently interpreted for me, may have been the causes of my preservation. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
The world sees only the reflection of merit; therefore when you come to know a really great man intimately, you may as… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
The useful may be trusted to further itself, for many produce it and no one can do without it; but the beautiful… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Shakespeare is a great psychologist, and whatever can be known of the heart of man may be found in his plays. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Higher yet and higher out of clouds and night, nearer yet and nearer rising to the light - light, serene and holy… — 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… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
The suffering may be moral or physical; and in my opinion it is just as absurd to call a man a coward… — 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
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