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
To like things like, whatever one may ail; There is certain help. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Everything in the world may be endured except continual prosperity. — 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
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, 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Wood burns because it has the proper stuff for that purpose in it; and a man becomes renowned because he has the… — 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
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
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
How fair doth Nature Appear again! How bright the sunbeams! How smiles the plain! The flow'rs are bursting From ev'ry bough, And… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Piety is not an end, but a means: a means of attaining the highest culture by the purest tranquility of soul. Hence… — 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… — 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
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
When we see the many grave-stones which have fallen in, which have been defaced by the footsteps of the congregation, which lie… — 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.… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Whatever we may say against collections, which present authors in a disjointed form, they nevertheless bring about many excellent results. We are… — 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
The fate of the architect is the strangest of all. How often he expends his whole soul, his whole heart and passion,… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
A flippant, frivolous man may ridicule others, may controvert them, scorn them; but he who has any respect for himself seems to… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Necessity is cruel, but it is the only test of inward strength. Every fool may live according to his own likings. — 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
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