Life teaches us to be less harsh with ourselves and with others. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Make the most of time, it flies away so fast; yet method will teach you to win time. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Some books seem to have been written, not to teach us anything, but to let us know that the author has known… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
They teach in academies far too many things, and far too much that is useless. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Our friends show us what we can do; our enemies teach us what we must do. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
First let a man teach himself, and then he will be taught by others. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
What government is the best? That which teaches us to govern ourselves. [Ger., Welche Regierung die beste sei? Diejenige die uns lehrt… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Children can scarcely be fashioned to meet with our likes and our purpose. Just as God did us give them, so must… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
The soul-stirring image of death is no bugbear to the sage, and is looked on without despair by the pious. It teaches… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Animals, we have been told, are taught by their organs. Yes, I would add, and so are men, but men have this… — 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
It is the color closest to light. In its utmost purity it always implies the nature of brightness and has a cheerful,… — 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
Pain and pleasure, good and evil, come to us from unexpected sources. It is not there where we have gathered up our brightest hopes, that the dawn of happiness breaks. It is not there where we have glanced our eye with affright, that we find the deadliest gloom. What should this teach us? To bow to the great and only… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share
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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