There are but two roads that lead to an important goal and to the doing of great things: strength and perseverance. Strength… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
The smallest hair throws its shadow. [Ger., Das kleinste Harr wirft seinen Schatten.] — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Nothing is more consonant with Nature than that she puts into operation in the smallest detail that which she intends as a… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
It is better to do the smallest thing in the world than to hold half an hour to be too small a… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
I had rather be Mercury, the smallest among seven [planets], revolving round the sun, than the first among five [moons] revolving round… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Not all that is presented to us as history has really happened; and what really happened did not actually happen the way… — 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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