Objects in pictures should so be arranged as by their very position to tell their own story. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
We should know mankind better if we were not so anxious to resemble one another. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
They should be ashamed of themselves, all these sober people! — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
If children grew up according to early indications, we should have nothing but geniuses. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
One should not search for anything behind the phenomena. They themselves are the message. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Great thoughts and a pure heart, that is what we should ask from God. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
It is the fortunate who should extol fortune. [Ger., Das Gluck erhebe billig der Begluckte.] — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Tolerance should, strictly speaking, be only a passing mood; it ought to lead to acknowledgment and appreciation. To tolerate a person is… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
If there is confusion in your head and in your heart, what more do you want! A man who no longer loves… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
God could cause us considerable embarrassment by revealing all the secrets of nature to us: we should not know what to do… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
If we take people only as they are, then we make them worse; if we treat them as if they were what… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
People should talk less and draw more. Personally, I would like to renounce speech altogether and, like organic nature, communicate everything I… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
The poet should seize the Particular, and he should, if there be anything sound in it, thus represent the Universal. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Hell begins the day that God grants you the vision to see all that you could have done, should have done, and… — 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
Tomorrow sees undone, what happens not to-day; Still forward press, nor never tire! The possible, with steadfast trust, Resolve should be by… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Alas, that we should be so unwilling to listen to the still and holy yearnings of the heart! A god whispers quite… — 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
Without my attempts in natural science, I should never have learned to know mankind such as it is. In nothing else can… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Whatever we think out, whatever we take in hand to do, should be perfectly and finally finished, that the world, if it… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Rash combat oft immortalizes man; if he should fall, he is renowned in song; but after-ages reckon not the ceaseless tears which… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Why should we not recognize in the lightning, the thunder, and the storm wind, the approach of an overwhelming Power, and in… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Whenever I hear people talking about liberal ideas, I am always astounded that men should love to fool themselves with empty sounds.… — 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
All ages have said and repeated that one should strive to know one's self. This is a strange demand which no one… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
An actor should take lessons from a painter and a sculptor. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
There are two things children should get from their parents: roots and wings. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
It is impossible that beauty should ever distinctly appreciate itself. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Impotent hatred is the most horrible of all emotions; one should hate nobody whom one cannot destroy. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Aptitudes are assumed, they should become accomplishments. That is the purpose of all education. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
In art, to express the infinite one should suggest infinitely more than is expressed. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
It has ever been my fate to give pain to those whose happiness I should have promoted. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
One man's word is no man's word; we should quietly hear both sides. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
It is a maxim of wise government to treat people not as they should be but as they actually are. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Each traveler should know what he has to see, and what properly belongs to him, on a journey. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
He who does not expect a million readers should not write a line. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Tolerance should really be only a temporary attitude; it must lead to recognition. To tolerate means to offend. — 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
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