I look upon all four Gospels as thoroughly genuine, for there shines forth from them the reflected splendor of a sublimity proceeding… — 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
Someday perhaps the inner light will shine forth from us, and then we'll need no other light. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Let mental culture go on advancing, let the natural sciences progress in even greater extent and depth, and the human mind widen… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
The thought of death leaves me in perfect peace, for I have a firm conviction that our spirit is a being of… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Take life too seriously, and what is it worth? If the morning wake us to no new joys, if the evening bring… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Lamps make oil-spots and candles need snuffing; it is only the light of heaven that shines pure and leaves no stain. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Like the star that shines afar, Without haste and without rest, Let each one wheel with steady sway Round the task that… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Sweet moonlight, shining full and clear, Why do you light my torture here? How often have you seen me toil, Burning last… — 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
