So schaff' ich am sausenden Webstuhl der Zeit. Thus at Time's humming loom I ply. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
If you live criticizing people, you won't have time to love them. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Perseverance is a silent power that grows irresistibly greater with time. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Writing history is a method of getting rid of the past. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
For precisely when concepts fail one, Words are found at the right time. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Die Zeit ist selbst ein Element. Time is itself an element. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Great endowments often announce themselves in youth in the form of singularity and awkwardness. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Of all thieves, fools are the worst; they rob you of time and temper. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Since Time is not a person we can overtake when he is gone, let us honor him with mirth and cheerfulness of… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Love grants in a moment What toil can hardly achieve in an age. [Ger., In einem Augenblick gewahrt die Liebe Was Muhe… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
“So divinely is the world organized that every one of us, in our place and time, is in balance with everything else. ” — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Every situation--nay, every moment--is of infinite worth; for it is the representative of a whole eternity. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
The written word has this advantage, that it lasts and can await the time when it is allowed to take effect. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
There are but few who have ideas and are, at the same time, capable of action. Ideas enlarge but stymie, action enlivens… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
At the end of life thoughts hitherto impossible come to the collected mind, like good spirits which let themselves down from the… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Tolerance comes of age. I see no fault committed that I myself could not have committed at some time or other. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
“If you inquire what the people are like here, I must answer, "The same as everywhere." The human race is but a… — 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
“It was as if my soul were thinking separately from the body: she looked upon the body as a foreign substance, as… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Men's prejudices rest upon their character for the time being and cannot be overcome, as being part and parcel of themselves. Neither… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
The moment one definitely commits oneself, then Providence moves, too. All sorts of things occur to help one that would never have… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
I am certain that I have been here as I am now a thousand times before, and I hope to return a… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
I had toward the poetic art a peculiar relation which was only practical after I had cherished in my mind for a… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
“Few people are capable of concerning themselves with the most recent past. Either the present holds us violently captive, or we lose… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
In all our academies we attempt far too much. ... In earlier times lectures were delivered upon chemistry and botany as branches… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
“O, may you look, full moon that shines, On my pain for this last time: So many midnights from my desk, I… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
“So give me back that time again, When I was still ‘becoming’, [185] When words gushed like a fountain In new, and endless… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Devote each day to the object then in time and every evening will find something done. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Time does not relinquish its rights, either over human beings or over mountains. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Yet he who grasps the moment's gift, He is the proper man. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
“Nothing is more highly to be prized than the value of each day” — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Who can think wise or stupid things at all that were not thought already in the past. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
A lot of people do not care about your money until nearly penniless. They also do so with time — 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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![“O, may you look, full moon that shines, On my pain for this last time: So many midnights from my desk, I have seen you, keeping watch: When over my books and paper, [390] Saddest friend, you appear! Ah! If on the mountain height I might stand in your sweet light, Float with spirits in mountain…” quote by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/5b6/johann-wolfgang-von-goethe-36_books_o-may-you-look-full-moon-that-shines-on_969392.jpg)
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