The longer I live, the more it grieves me to see man, who occupies his supreme place for the very purpose of… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Are we not also married to conscience which we would love to get rid of often enough since it is more bothersome… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Every man must form himself as a particular being, seeking, however, to attain that general idea of which all mankind are constituents. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
There is nothing by which men display their character so much as in what they consider ridiculous... Fools and sensible men are… — 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
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
Most man only care for science so far as they get a living by it, and that they worship even error when… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
He is the happiest man who can see the connection between the end and the beginning of life. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Men are so constituted that every one undertakes what he sees another successful in, whether he has aptitude for it or not. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
The important thing is not to know more than all men, but to know more at each moment than any particular man. — 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
The moment one definitely commits oneself, then Providence moves, too. All sorts of things occur to help one that would never have… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
It is a mistake for a taciturn, serious-minded woman to marry a jovial man, but not for a serious-minded man to marry… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
The few of understanding, vision rare, Who veiled not from the herd their hearts, but tried, Poor generous fools, to lay their… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
A good man, through obscurest aspirations Has still an instinct of the one true way. — 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
For a brave man deserves a well-endowed girl. [Ger., Denn ein wackerer Mann verdient ein begutertes Madchen.] — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Who is the happiest of men? He who values the merits of others, and in their pleasure takes joy, even as though… — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe Copy Share Image
Great necessity elevates man, petty necessity casts him down — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
To measure up to all that is demanded of him, a man must overestimate his capacities — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Men are much more apt to agree in what they do than in what they think. — 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
