And step by step, along the path of life, There's nothing true but Heaven. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
The heights charm us, but the steps do not; with the mountain in our view we love to walk the plains. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
I am amazed to see how deliberately I have entangled myself step by step. To have seen my position so clearly, and… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
It is not enough to take steps which may someday lead to a goal; each step must be itself a goal and… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
When toward the Devil's Hose we tread, Woman's a thousand steps behind. [Ger., Denn geht es zu des Bosen Haus Das Weib… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
I wish the stage were as narrow as the wire of a tighrope dancer so that no incompetent would dare step upon… — 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
The greatest step forward would be to see that everything factual is already theory. The blueness of the sky reveals the basic… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
The summit charms us, the steps to it do not; with the heights before our eyes, we like to linger in 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 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