Oh, happy he who still hopes he can emerge from Error's boundless sea! - Faust. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Still this planet's soil for noble deeds grants scope abounding. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Thou tremblest before anticipated ills, and still bemoanest what thou never losest. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
A good man, through obscurest aspirations Has still an instinct of the one true way. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Nothing is worth more than this day. You cannot relive yesterday. Tomorrow is still beyond your reach. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
And those whom once my song had cheered and gladdened, If still they live, rove through the world now saddened. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Just as, out of habit, one consults a run-down clock as though it were still going, so too one may look at… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Rejoice that you have still have a long time to live, before the thought comes to you that there is nothing more… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Commonplaceness, the surrender to the average, that good which is not bad but still the enemy of the best - That is our besetting danger. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share
So, lively brisk old fellow, don't let age get you down. White hairs or not, you can still be a lover. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
All rights and laws are still transmitted, Like an eternal sickness to the race. [Ger., Es erben sich Gesetz and Rechte Wie… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
How happy he who can still hope to lift himself from this sea of error! What we know not, that we are… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Tomorrow sees undone, what happens not to-day; Still forward press, nor never tire! The possible, with steadfast trust, Resolve should be by… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Alas, that we should be so unwilling to listen to the still and holy yearnings of the heart! A god whispers quite… — 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
Age childish makes, they say, but 'tis not true; We're only genuine children still in Age's season. [Ger., Das Alter macht nicht… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
What is now the foliage moving? Air is still, and hush'd the breeze, Sultriness, this fullness loving, Through the thicket, from the… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
If we examine every stage of our lives, we find that from our first breath to our last we are under the… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Everything perfect in its kind has to transcend its own kind, it must become something different and incomparable. In some notes the… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
I do not now begin,--I still adore Her whom I early cherish'd in my breast; Then once again with prudence dispossess'd, And… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
True observers of nature, although they may think differently, will still agree that everything that is, everything that is observable as a phenomenon, can only exhibit itself in one of two ways. It is either a primal polarity that is able to unify, or it is a primal unity that is able to divide. The operation of nature consists of… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share
I must consider more closely this cycle of good and bad days which I find coursing within myself. Passion, attachment, the urge to action, inventiveness, performance, order all alternate and keep their orbit; cheerfulness, vigor, energy, flexibility and fatigue, serenity as well as desire. Nothing disturbs the cycle for I lead a simple life, but I must still find the… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share
In all things, to serve from the lowest station upwards is necessary. To restrict yourself to a trade is best. For the… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
The little that is completed, vanishes from the sight of one who looks forward to what is still to do. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Nothing can be compared to the new life that the discovery of another country provides for a thoughtful person. Although I am… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
It used to happen, and still happens, to me to take no pleasure in a work of art at the first sight… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
As all Nature's thousands changes But one changeless God proclaim; So in Art's wide kingdom ranges One sole meaning still the same:… — 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
![“All rights and laws are still transmitted, Like an eternal sickness to the race. [Ger., Es erben sich Gesetz and Rechte Wie eine ew'ge Krankheit fort.]” quote by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/25b/johann-wolfgang-von-goethe-36_eternal_all-rights-and-laws-are-still-transmitte_1013176.jpg)
![“Age childish makes, they say, but 'tis not true; We're only genuine children still in Age's season. [Ger., Das Alter macht nicht kindisch, wie man spricht, Es findet uns nur noch als wahre Kinder.]” quote by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/2a3/johann-wolfgang-von-goethe-36_age_age-childish-makes-they-say-but-tis-not_1851271.jpg)
