The philosophers must station themselves in the middle. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
The work of art may have a moral effect, but to demand moral purpose from the artist is to make him ruin… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
“Entbehren sollst du - sollst entbehren. Thou shalt forego, shalt do without.” — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Time does not relinquish its rights, either over human beings or over mountains. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Everyone believes in his youth that the world really began with him, and that all merely exists for his sake. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
“What matters creative endless toil, When, at a snatch, oblivion ends the coil?” — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
“Zwei Seelen wohnen, ach! in meiner Brust, Die eine will sich von der andern trennen;” — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
What must the English and French think of the language of our philosophers when we Germans do not understand it ourselves? — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
We can stand only a certain amount of unhappiness; anything beyond that annihilates us or passes us by, leaving us apathethetic. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
The thinker makes a great mistake when he asks after cause and effect. They both together make up the indivisible phenomenon. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
When the boy begins to understand that the visible point is preceded by an invisible point, that the shortest distance between two… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
“Medicine, and Law, and Philosophy - You've worked your way through every school, Even, God help you, Theology, And sweated at 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 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
