The most damaging prejudice consists of banning any kind of investigation of nature. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
As long as you don't practice it, this dying and becoming, You are only a dreary guest on this dark earth. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
It is the nature of grace always to fill spaces that have been empty. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Nature has neither core nor skin: she’s both at once outside and in. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
“Can we never take pleasure in nature without having recourse to art?” — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
For that is love's nature that itlays claim to exclusive right and that all other claims are nil. — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe Copy Share Image
“Every one has something in his nature which, if he were to express it openly, would of necessity give offence.” — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
The older I get the more I trust in the law according to which the rose and the lily bloom. — 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
Nature! We are surrounded by her and locked in her clasp: powerless to leave her, and powerless to come closer to her.… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
“I pity those who make much ado about the transitory nature of all things and are lost in the contemplation of earthly… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
People should talk less and draw more. Personally, I would like to renounce speech altogether and, like organic nature, communicate everything I… — 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
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
“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
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
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
No one is willing to believe that adults too, like children, wander about this earth in a daze and, like children, do… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
The thought of death leaves me in perfect peace, for I have a firm conviction that our spirit is a being of… — 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 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
