Being brilliant is no great feat if you respect nothing. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
We can really respect a man only if he doesn't always look out for himself. — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe Copy Share Image
In the end we are all separate: our stories, no matter how similar, come to a fork and diverge. We are drawn… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Nobody, they say, is a hero to his valet. Of course; for a man must be a hero to understand a hero.… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
A flippant, frivolous man may ridicule others, may controvert them, scorn them; but he who has any respect for himself seems to… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
People of a vertain rank will always keep a cool distance from common people, as if they were afraid to lose their… — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe Copy Share Image
Should I not be proud, when for twenty years I have had to admit to myself that the great Newton and all… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
I respect the man who knows distinctly what he wishes. The greater part of all mischief in the world arises from the… — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe Copy Share Image
Music is either sacred or secular. The sacred agrees with its dignity, and here has its greatest effect on life, an effect… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
The dignity of art probably appears most eminently with music since it does not have any material that needs to be discounted.… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
“There is no art in turning a goddess into a witch, a virgin into a whore, but the opposite operation, to give… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
“What I have lately said of painting is equally true with respect to poetry. It is only necessary for us to know… — 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
