A reasonable man needs only to practice moderation to find happiness. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
He who possesses art and science has religion; he who does not possess them, needs religion. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
A human being needs only a small plot of ground on which to be happy, and even less to lie beneath. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
He is happy as well as great who needs neither to obey nor to command in order to be something. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
He who is plenteously provided for from within needs but little from without. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Every need whose true satisfaction is denied leads by necessity to faith. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
One needs only to get old to become milder; I don't see anyone make a mistake I hadn't also made. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Someday perhaps the inner light will shine forth from us, and then we'll need no other light. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
The dignity of art probably appears most eminently with music since it does not have any material that needs to be discounted.… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
All one needs to do is declare oneself free and one will immediately feel dependent. If you dare to declare yourself dependent,… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
The affairs of the world are no more than so much trickery, and a man who toils for money or honour or… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Faith is like private capital, stored in one's own house. It is like a public savings bank or loan office, from which… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
The useful may be trusted to further itself, for many produce it and no one can do without it; but the beautiful… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
The summit charms us, the steps to it do not; with the heights before our eyes, we like to linger in the… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Nine requisites for contented living: Health enough to make work a pleasure. Wealth enough to support your needs. Strength to battle with… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Does not man lack the force at the very point where he needs it most? And when he soars upward in joy,… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
The world is so full of simpletons and madmen, that one need not seek them in a madhouse. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Hatred is active displeasure, envy passive. We need not wonder that envy turns to soon to hatred. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Lamps make oil-spots and candles need snuffing; it is only the light of heaven that shines pure and leaves no stain. — 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
