“All our most honest toil succeeds only in unconscious moments. For how would the rose blossom if it were aware of the… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
When young, one is confident to be able to build palaces for mankind, but when the time comes one has one's hands… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
The destiny of any nation at any given time depends on the opinion of its young people, those under twenty-five. — 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
Time does not relinquish its rights, either over human beings or over mountains. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
To become aware in time when young of the advantages of age; to maintain the advantages of youth in old age: both… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Many people take no care of their money till they come nearly to the end of it, and others do just the… — 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
Be always resolute with the present hour. Every moment is of infinite value. — 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
“Nothing higher can be accomplished by the epic poet thus interpreting his own time in order to serve the future. (Foreword by… — 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
It is a great pleasure to transport one's-self into the spirit of the times; to see how a wise man has thought… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
The destiny of any nation at any given time depends on the opinions of its young men under five-and-twenty — 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
The day is of infinite length for him who knows how to appreciate and use it. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
It is delightful to transport one's self into the spirit of the past, to see how a wise man has thought before… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Rest not. Life is sweeping by; go and dare before you die. Something mighty and sublime, leave behind to conquer time. — 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
Everything is simpler than you think and at the same time more complex than you imagine — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
At all times it has not been the age, but individuals alone, who have worked for knowledge. It was the age which… — 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 older we get the more we must limit ourselves if we wish to be active. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
There is no past that we can bring back by longing for it. There is only an eternally new now that builds… — 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
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
