There is no permanence in doubt; it incites the mind to closer inquiry and experiment, from which, if rightly managed, certainty proceeds,… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Girls we love for what they are; young men for what they promise to be. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
The greatest joy of a thinking man is to have searched the explored and to quietly revere the unexplored. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
No doubt you are right... there would be far less suffering amongst mankind if men... did not employ their imaginations so assiduously… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
The most foolish of all errors is for clever young men to believe that they forfeit their originality in recognizing a truth… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
When the healthy nature of man acts as a whole, when he feels himself to be in the world as in a… — 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
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
Age childish makes, they say, but 'tis not true; We're only genuine children still in Age's season. [Ger., Das Alter macht nicht… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Is this the destiny of man? Is he only happy before he has acquired his reason or after he has lost it? — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
I hold to faith in the divine love - which, so many years ago for a brief moment in a little corner… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
One cannot always be a hero, but one can always be a man. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
In all times it is only individuals that have advanced science, not the age. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
I make presents to the mother but think of the daughter. — 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
The finished man, you know, is difficult to please; a growing mind will ever show you gratitude. --Faust 1, lines 182-3 — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
I could never have known so well how paltry men are, and how little they care for really high aims, if I… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
If man thinks about his physical or moral state he usually discovers that he is ill. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
No man learns to know his inmost nature by introspection, for he rates himself sometimes too low, and often too high, by… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Man cannot persist long in a conscious state, he must throw himself back into the unconscious, for his root lives there. — 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
