I am fully convinced that the soul is indestructible, and its activity will continue through eternity. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
The soul of man is like to water; from Heaven it cometh, to Heaven it riseth And then returning to earth, forever… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
two souls, alas, are housed within my breast, and each will wrestle for the mastery there. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
A noble soul alone can noble souls attract; And knows alone, as ye, to hold them. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
“When a human awakens to a great dream and throws the full force of his soul over it, all the universe conspires… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
To me the external existence of my soul is proved from my idea of activity. If I work incessantly until my death,… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
As to the value of conversions, God alone can judge. God alone can know how wide are the steps which the soul… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
I have possessed that heart, that noble soul, in whose presence I seemed to be more than I really was, because I… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
When scholars study a thing, they strive to kill it first, if it's alive; then they have the parts and the'be lost… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Take care of your body with steadfast fidelity. The soul must see through these eyes alone, and if they are dim, the… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Piety is not an end, but a means: a means of attaining the highest culture by the purest tranquility of soul. Hence… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
The fate of the architect is the strangest of all. How often he expends his whole soul, his whole heart and passion,… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
A man should hear a little music, read a little poetry, and see a fine picture every day of his life, in… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
The world is for thousands a freak show; the images flicker past and vanish; the impressions remain flat and unconnected in the… — 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
Distance... is like futurity. A dim vastness is spread before our souls; the perceptions of our mind are as obscure as those… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
The main thing is to have a soul that loves the truth and harbours it where he finds it. And another thing:… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
As for solitude, I cannot understand how certain people seek to lay claim to intellectual stature, nobility of soul and strength of character, yet have not the slightest feeling for seclusion; for solitude, I maintain, when joined with a quiet contemplation of nature, a serene and conscious faith in creation and the Creator, and a few vexations from outside is… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share
You can’t, if you can’t feel it, if it never Rises from the soul, and sways The heart of every single hearer,… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
The soul-stirring image of death is no bugbear to the sage, and is looked on without despair by the pious. It teaches… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
The soul is indestructible and its activity will continue through eternity. It is like the sun, which, to our eyes, seems to… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Higher yet and higher out of clouds and night, nearer yet and nearer rising to the light - light, serene and holy… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
If any man wish to write in a clear style, let him be first clear in his thoughts; and if any would… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Assuredly there is no more lovely worship of God than that for which no image is required, but which springs up in… — 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
