Names are but noise and smoke, Obscuring heavenly light. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Napoleon for the sake of a good name broke in pieces half the world. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
To every one [Nature] appears in a form of his own. She hides herself in a thousand names and terms, and is… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
A man's name is not like a mantle which merely hangs about him...but a perfectly fitting garment, which, like the skin, has… — 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
I have often reaped what others have sowed. My work is the work of a collective being that bears the name Goethe. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
A teacher who can arouse a feeling for one single good action, for one single good poem, accomplishes more than he who… — 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 necessary stuff in him. Renown is not to be sought, and all pursuit of it is vain. A person may, indeed, by skillful conduct and various artificial means, make a sort of name for himself; but if the… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share
What am I then...? Everything that I have seen, heard, and observed I have collected and exploited. My works have been nourished by countless different individuals, by innocent and wise ones, people of intelligence and dunces. Childhood, maturity and old age all have brought me their thoughts…their perspectives on life. I have often reaped what others have sowed. My work… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share
It is quite beyond me how anyone can believe God speaks to us in books and stories. If the world does not… — 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
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
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