The whole art of living consists in giving up existence in order to exist. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
To live as one likes is plebian the noble man aspires to order and law. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Nature goes on her way, and all that to us seems an exception is really according to order. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Nature goes her own way, and all that to us seems an exception is really according to order. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Certain books seem to be written, not that we might learn from them, but in order that we might see how much… — 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
A man should hear a little music, read a little poetry, and see a fine picture every day of his life, in… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
I must consider more closely this cycle of good and bad days which I find coursing within myself. Passion, attachment, the urge to action, inventiveness, performance, order all alternate and keep their orbit; cheerfulness, vigor, energy, flexibility and fatigue, serenity as well as desire. Nothing disturbs the cycle for I lead a simple life, but I must still find the… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share
If we examine every stage of our lives, we find that from our first breath to our last we are under the… — 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
