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
Man's highest merit always is, as much as possible, to rule external circumstances and as little as possible to let himself be… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
The phrases that men hear or repeat continually, end by becoming convictions and ossify the organs of intelligence. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
One should not wish anyone disagreeable conditions of life; but for him who is involved in them by chance, they are touchstones… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Man can only endure a certain degree of unhappiness; what is beyond that either annihilates him or passes by him and leaves… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
The art of governing is a great metier, requiring the whole man, and it is therefore not well for a ruler to… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Poetry is the universal possession of mankind, revealing itself everywhere, and at all times, in hundreds and hundreds of men. — 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
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
Beware of her fair hair, for she excels All women in the magic of her locks; And when she winds them round… — 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
Man usually believes, if only words he hears, That also with them goes material for thinking. [Ger., Gewohnlich glaubt der Mensch, wenn… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
A noble man is led far by woman's gentle words. [Ger., Ein edler Mann wird durch ein gutes Wort Der Frauen weit… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
If you treat men the way they are you never improve them. If you treat them the way you want them to… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
It is a great pleasure to transport one's-self into the spirit of the times; to see how a wise man has thought… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
The greater part of all the mischief in the world arises from the fact that men do not sufficiently understand their own… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
The greatest piece of folly is that every man thinks himself compelled to hand down what people think they have known. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
A man is not little when he finds it difficult to cope with circumstances, but when circumstances overmaster him. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
What do people mean when they talk about unhappiness? It is not so much unhappiness as impatience that from time to time… — 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 man would create another man if one did not already exist, but a woman might live an eternity without even thinking… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
We are accustomed to see men deride what they do not understand, and snarl at the good and beautiful because it lies… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Man is not born to solve the problem of the universe, but to find out what he has to do; and to… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
A vain man can never be utterly ruthless: he wants to win applause and therefore he accommodates himself to others — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Sound and sufficient reason falls, after all, to the share of but few men, and those few men exert their influence in… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
If any man wish to write in a clear style, let him be first clear in his thoughts; and if any would… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Forget not that the man who cannot enjoy his own natural gifts in silence, and find his reward in the exercise of… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Nature understands no jesting. She is always true, always serious, always severe. She is always right, and the errors are always those… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Man supposes that he directs his life and governs his actions, when his existence is irretrievably under the control of destiny — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
As in Rome there is, apart from the Romans, a population of statues, so apart from this real world there is a… — 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
Look at a man the way he is and he only becomes worse, but look at him as if he were what… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Animals, we have been told, are taught by their organs. Yes, I would add, and so are men, but men have this… — 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
Prudent and active men, who know their strength and use it with limit and circumspection, alone go far in the affairs of… — 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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