Fools and wise men are equally harmless. It is the half-fools and half-wise that are dangerous. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
In society every man is taken for what he gives himself out to be; but he must give himself out to be… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Man knows himself only insofar as he knows the world, becoming aware of it if only within himself, and of himself self… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Perfection is the measure of heaven, and the wish to be perfect the measure of man. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Beloved brother, let us not forget that man can never get away from himself. [Ger., Lass uns, geliebter Bruder, nicht vergessen, Dass… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
He is a man whom it is impossible to please, because he is never pleased with himself. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
A man who is ignorant of foreign languages is also ignorant of his own language. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
The man who acts never has any conscience; no one has any conscience but the man who thinks — 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
He only fears men who does not know them, and he who avoids them will soon misjudge them. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
It will be! the mass is working clearer! Conviction gathers, truer, nearer! The mystery which for Man in Nature lies We dare… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Habit is a man's sole comfort. We dislike doing without even unpleasant things to which we have become accustomed. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
I am certain that I have been here as I am now a thousand times before, and I hope to return a… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
To live as one likes is plebian the noble man aspires to order and law. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Painting predicates what man wants to see, and what man ought to see, not what he ordinarily sees. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
All professional men are handicapped by not being allowed to ignore things which are useless. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Man... knows only when he is satisfied and when he suffers, and only his sufferings and his satisfactions instruct him concerning himself,… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
A man must cling to the belief that the incomprehensible is comprehensible; otherwise he would not try to fathom it. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Such is the frailty of man that even where he makes the truest and most forcible impression in the memory, in the… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Character - in things great and small - is indicated when a man (or person) pursues with sustained follow-through what he feels… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Against criticism a man can neither protest nor defend himself; he must act in spite of it, and then it will gradually… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Nobody, they say, is a hero to his valet. Of course; for a man must be a hero to understand a hero.… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
If a man sets out to study all the laws, he will have no time left to transgress them. — 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
