But when all is said, the greatest art is to limit and isolate oneself. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
It is after all the greatest art to limit and isolate oneself. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
How can one learn to know oneself? Never by introspection, rather by action. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
One does not get to know that one exists until one rediscovers oneself in others. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
There is no surer method of evading the world than by following Art, and no surer method of linking oneself to it… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
The moment one definitely commits oneself, then Providence moves too. Whatever you think you can do, or believe you can do, begin… — 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
It is a great error to take oneself for more than one is, or for less than one is worth. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Only that type of story deserves to be called moral that shows us that one has the power within oneself to act,… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
The moment one definitely commits oneself, then Providence moves, too. All sorts of things occur to help one that would never have… — 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
