Were the eye not of the sun, How could we behold the light? If God's might and ours were not as one,… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
I had rather be Mercury, the smallest among seven [planets], revolving round the sun, than the first among five [moons] revolving round… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Correction does much, but encouragement does more. Encouragement after censure is as the sun after a shower. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Were not the eye made to receive the rays of the sun, it could not behold the sun; if the peculiar power… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
The angles even Draw strength from gazing on its glance, Though none its meaning fathom may; The world's unwither'd countenance Is bright… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Take life too seriously, and what is it worth? If the morning wake us to no new joys, if the evening bring… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
The works of Lavoisier and his associates operated upon many of us at that time like the Sun's rising after a night… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Moral epochs have their course as well as the seasons. We can no more hold them fast than we can hold sun,… — 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
Tomorrow the sun will also rise to the occasion of another day with equal grandeur. Such is the nature of that morrow… — 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
This world could not exist if it were not so simple. The ground has been tilled a thousand years, yet its powers… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Love has the tendency of pressing together all the lights - all the rays emitted from the beloved object by the burning-glass… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
“Your suns and worlds are not within my ken, I merely watch the plaguey state of men. The little god of earth… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
The sun had, in the meanwhile, sunk behind the Ettersberg. We felt in the wood the chill of the evening, and drove… — 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
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