If I work incessantly to the last, nature owes me another form of existence when the present one collapses. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
I believe in God and in nature and in the triumph of good over evil. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
By nature we have no defect that could not become a strength, no strength that could not become a defect. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Nature reacts not only to physical disease, but also to moral weakness; when the danger increases; she gives us greater courage — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Nature knows no pause in progress and development, and attaches her curse on all inaction. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
“Indeed, I am nothing but a wanderer and a pilgrim on this earth! And what more are you?” — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
The most damaging prejudice consists of banning any kind of investigation of nature. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
We are pantheists when we study nature, polytheists when we write poetry, monotheists in our morality. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Men in a state of nature, uncivilized nations, children, have a great fondness for colors in their utmost brightness, and especially for… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
God could cause us considerable embarrassment by revealing all the secrets of nature to us: we should not know what to do… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
To me the external existence of my soul is proved from my idea of activity. If I work incessantly until my death,… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
We learn to treasure what is above this earth; we long for revelation, which nowhere burns more purely and more beautifully than… — 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
“Whatever noblest things the mind received, More and more foreign matter spoils the theme; And when the good of this world is… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
“schade dass die Natur nur einen Mensch aus dir schuf / denn zum wurdigen Mann war und zum Schelmen der Stoff" (loose… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
This world could not exist if it were not so simple. The ground has been tilled a thousand years, yet its powers… — 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
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
“Nature understands no jesting; she is always true, always serious, always severe; she is always right, and the errors and faults are… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
[Nature's] crown is Love. Only through Love can we come near her. She puts gulfs between all things, and all things strive… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
As for solitude, I cannot understand how certain people seek to lay claim to intellectual stature, nobility of soul and strength of… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Assuredly there is no more lovely worship of God than that for which no image is required, but which springs up in… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Reason looks at necessity as the basis of the world; reason is able to turn chance in your favor and use it.… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Truth is contrary to our nature, not so error, and this for a very simple reason: truth demands that we should recognize… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
It is the color closest to light. In its utmost purity it always implies the nature of brightness and has a cheerful,… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Nature! We are enveloped and embraced by her, incapable of emerging from her and incapable of entering her more deeply. Unbidden and… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
The bad thing is that thinking about thought doesn't help at all; one has to have it from nature so that the… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
The world is so empty if one thinks only of mountains, rivers and cities; but to know someone who thinks and feels… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Superstition is the poetry of life. It is inherent in man's nature; and when we think it is wholly eradicated, it takes… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
“Did I not feel charmed at those truly genuine expressions of nature, which, though but little mirthful in reality, so often amused… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Tomorrow the sun will also rise to the occasion of another day with equal grandeur. Such is the nature of that morrow… — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe Copy Share Image
Nature is beneficent. I praise her and all her works. She is silent and wise. She is cunning, but for good ends.… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
There is nothing new on earth / For a person who lives long and experiences much. / In my years of youthful… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
How fair doth Nature Appear again! How bright the sunbeams! How smiles the plain! The flow'rs are bursting From ev'ry bough, And… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Mysterious in the light of day, nature retains her veil, despite our clamours: That which she does not willingly display cannot be… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
The spectacle of Nature is always new, for she is always renewing the spectators. Life is her most exquisite invention; and death… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
“The most privileged position, in life as in society, is that of an educated soldier. Rough warriors, at any rate, remain true… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
In nature we never see anything isolated, but everything in connection with something else which is before it, beside it, under it… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Neither a work of nature nor one of art we get to know when they have been finished; we must surprise them… — 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
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