Everything that frees our spirit without giving us control of ourselves is ruinous. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
What a mighty spirit in a narrow bosom. [Ger., Welch' hoher Geist in einer engen Brust.] — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Ah! my poor brain is racked and crazed, My spirit and senses amazed! — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
If you want to reach the infinite, then explore every aspect of the finite. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Whatever liberates our spirit, without also giving us mastery over ourselves, is destructive. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
What people call the spirit of the times is mostly their own spirit in which the times mirror themselves. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Do not, I beg you, look for anything behind phenomena. They are themselves their own lesson. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
What dazzles, for the moment spends its spirit; Whats genuine, shall posterity inherit. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Analysis and synthesis are both as necessary to the thinking spirit as inspiration and expiration to the organism. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Words are good, but there is something better. The best is not to be explained by words. The spirit in which we… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Nature does not suffer her veil to be taken from her, and what she does not choose to reveal to the spirit,… — 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
It is delightful to transport one's self into the spirit of the past, to see how a wise man has thought before… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
No limit, no definition, may restrict the range or depth of the human spirit's passage into its own secrets or the world's. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Wind is the loving Wooer of waters; Wind blends together Billows all-foaming. Spirit of man, Thou art like unto water! Fortune of… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
At the end of life thoughts hitherto impossible come to the collected mind, like good spirits which let themselves down from 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
From inaccessible mountain range by way of desert untrod by human foot to the ends of the unknown seas, the breath of… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Continue to make the demands of the day your immediate concern, and take occasion to test the purity of your hearts and… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Sweet moonlight, shining full and clear, Why do you light my torture here? How often have you seen me toil, Burning last… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
The thought of death leaves me in perfect peace, for I have a firm conviction that our spirit is a being of… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
I am the spirit that negates. And rightly so, for all that comes to be Deserves to perish wretchedly; 'Twere better nothing… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
“You are aware of only one unrest; Oh, never learn to know the other! Two souls, alas, are dwelling in my breast,… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
It is not always needful for truth to take a definite shape; it is enough if it hovers about us like a… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Words are good, but there is something better. The best cannot be explained by words. The spirit in which we act is… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
So much has already been said about Shakespeare that there doesn't seem to be anything more to say; yet it is the… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
The world is so empty if one thinks only of mountains, rivers and cities; but to know someone who thinks and feels… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
It is a great pleasure to transport one's-self into the spirit of the times; to see how a wise man has thought… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
We who didn't inherit political power nor are made to acquire riches like nothing better than that which expands and solidifies the… — 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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