Whatever we may say against collections, which present authors in a disjointed form, they nevertheless bring about many excellent results. We are not always so composed, so full of wisdom, that we are able to take in at once the whole scope of a work according to its merits. Do we not mark in a book passages which seem to… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share
Some of our weaknesses are born in us, others are the result of education; it is a question which of the two… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Hold your powers together for something good and let everything go that is for you without result and is not suited to… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Everything we do has a result. But that which is right and prudent does not always lead to good, nor the contrary… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Yes! to this thought I hold with firm persistence; The last result of wisdom stamps it true; He only earns his freedom… — 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
