My counsel is, to force nothing, and rather to trifle and sleep away all unproductive days and hours, than on such days… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Wild dreams torment me as I lie. And though a god lives in my heart, though all my power waken at his… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Hypotheses are lullabies for teachers to sing their students to sleep. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Error is to truth as sleep is to waking. I have observed that one turns, as if refreshed, from error back to… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
All that is noble is in itself of a quiet nature, and appears to sleep until it is aroused and summoned forth… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Reality surpasses imagination; and we see, breathing, brightening, and moving before our eyes sights dearer to our hearts than any we ever… — 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