Great thoughts and a pure heart, that is what we should ask from God. — 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
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
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
There are two things children should get from their parents: roots and wings. — 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 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
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
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
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
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
We should treat children as God does us, who makes us happiest when He leaves us under the influence of innocent delusions. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
One should not wish anyone disagreeable conditions of life; but for him who is involved in them by chance, they are touchstones… — 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
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
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
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
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
The flowers of life are but visionary. How many pass away and leave no trace behind! How few yield any fruit,--and the… — 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
It is the fortunate who should extol fortune. [Ger., Das Gluck erhebe billig der Begluckte.] — 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
Impotent hatred is the most horrible of all emotions; one should hate nobody whom one cannot destroy. — 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
In art, to express the infinite one should suggest infinitely more than is expressed. — 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
It is impossible that beauty should ever distinctly appreciate itself. — 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
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
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
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
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
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