Enjoy what thou has inherited from thy sires if thou wouldn't really possess it. What we employ and use is never an… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
“Entbehren sollst du - sollst entbehren. Thou shalt forego, shalt do without.” — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Thou art in the end what thou art. Put on wigs with millions of curls, set thy foot upon ell-high rocks. Thou… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Know'st thou yesterday, its aim and reason? Work'st thou will today for worthier things? Then calmly wait the morrow's hidden season, And… — 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
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
