We all of us live upon the past, and through the past we are destroyed. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Writing history is a method of getting rid of the past. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
It is delightful to transport one's self into the spirit of the past, to see how a wise man has thought before… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Who can think wise or stupid things at all that were not thought already in the past. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Fret not over the irretrievable, but ever act as if thy life were just begun. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Truth is a torch but a tremendous one. That is why we hurry past it, shielding our eyes, indeed, in fear of… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Truth is a torch, but a huge one, and so it is only with blinking eyes what we all of us try… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
The new vulcanism is really a daring attempt to connect the present, incomprehensible world to a past, unknown one. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
The world is for thousands a freak show; the images flicker past and vanish; the impressions remain flat and unconnected in the… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
At the end of life thoughts hitherto impossible come to the collected mind, like good spirits which let themselves down from the… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
No doubt you are right... there would be far less suffering amongst mankind if men... did not employ their imaginations so assiduously… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
There is no past we can bring back by longing for it. There is only an eternal now that builds and creates… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Over the trackless past, somewhere, Lie the lost days of our tropic youth, Only regained by faith and prayer, Only recalled by… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
It is a great pleasure to transport one's-self into the spirit of the times; to see how a wise man has thought… — 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
