What is the destiny of man, but to fill up the measure of his sufferings, and to drink his allotted cup of… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
It is better for you to suffer an injustice than for the world to be without law. Therefore, let everyone submit to… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Man can only endure a certain degree of unhappiness; what is beyond that either annihilates him or passes by him and leaves… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Thou must (in commanding and winning, or serving and losing, suffering or triumphing) be either anvil or hammer. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
You must either conquer and rule or serve and lose, suffer or triumph, be the anvil or the hammer. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
What a torment it is to see so much loveliness passing and repassing before us, and yet not dare to lay hold… — 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
No doubt you are right... there would be far less suffering amongst mankind if men... did not employ their imaginations so assiduously… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
A great artist... must be shaken by the naked truths that will not be comforted. This divine discontent, this disequilibrium, this state… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Say what you will of fortitude, but show me the man who can patiently endure the laughter of fools when they have… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
There would be far less suffering in the world if human beings-God knows why they are made like this-did not use their… — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe Copy Share Image
A man does not mind being blamed for his faults, and being punished for them, and he patiently suffers much for them;… — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe Copy Share Image
The suffering may be moral or physical; and in my opinion it is just as absurd to call a man a coward… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Ah, how often I've cursed those foolish pages, That showed my youthful sufferings to everyone! If Werther had been my brother, and… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Does not man lack the force at the very point where he needs it most? And when he soars upward in joy,… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
The flowers of life are but visionary. How many pass away and leave no trace behind! How few yield any fruit,--and the… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Must it ever be thus-that the source of our happiness must also be the fountain of our misery? The full and ardent… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Man... knows only when he is satisfied and when he suffers, and only his sufferings and his satisfactions instruct him concerning himself,… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
True religion teaches us to reverence what is under us, to recognize humility and poverty, and, despite mockery and disgrace, wretchedness, suffering,… — 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
