The true poet is called to take in the splendor of the world and for that reason will always be inclined to… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Let him who believes in immortality enjoy his happiness in silence; he has no reason to give himself airs about it. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
It is said, that no one is a hero to their butler. The reason is, that it requires a hero to recognize… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
What reason would grope for in vain, spontaneous impulse ofttimes achieves at a stroke, with light and pleasureful guidance. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Woe to him who would ascribe something like reason to Chance, and make a religion of surrendering to it. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Humans fear reason, but they ought to fear stupidity- for reason can be hard, but stupidity can be fatal. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Is this the destiny of man? Is he only happy before he has acquired his reason or after he has lost it? — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
The world of reason is to be regarded as a great and immortal being, who ceaselessly works out what is necessary, and… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Few rash of any modern nation have a proper sense of an aesthetical whole; they praise and blame by parts; they are… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Someday someone will write a pathology of experimental physics and bring to light all those swindles which subvert our reason, beguile our… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Men's prejudices rest upon their character for the time being and cannot be overcome, as being part and parcel of themselves. Neither… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Pity on the person who has become accustomed to seeing in necessity something arbitrary, who ascribes to the arbitrary some sort of… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
As all Nature's thousands changes But one changeless God proclaim; So in Art's wide kingdom ranges One sole meaning still the same:… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Truth is contrary to our nature, not so error, and this for a very simple reason: truth demands that we should recognize… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
The web of this world is woven of Necessity and Chance. Woe to him who has accustomed himself from his youth up… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Men are so inclined to content themselves with what is commonest; the spirit and the senses so easily grow dead to the… — 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… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Reason looks at necessity as the basis of the world; reason is able to turn chance in your favor and use it.… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Sound and sufficient reason falls, after all, to the share of but few men, and those few men exert their influence in… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Know'st thou yesterday, its aim and reason? Work'st thou will today for worthier things? Then calmly wait the morrow's hidden season, And… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Viewed from the summit of reason, all life looks like a malignant disease and the world like a madhouse. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Reason can never be popular. Passions and feelings may become popular, but reason will always remain the sole property of a few… — 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
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
All lyrical work must, as a whole, be perfectly intelligible, but in some particulars a little unintelligible. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share
We know accurately only when we know little, with knowledge doubt increases. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share
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
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
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
Just begin and the mind grows heated; continue, and the task will be completed! — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share
I look upon all four Gospels as thoroughly genuine, for there shines forth from them the reflected splendor of a sublimity proceeding from Jesus… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share
Whatever we may say against collections, which present authors in a disjointed form, they nevertheless bring about many excellent results. We are not always… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share
