“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
With the growth of knowledge our ideas must from time to time be organized afresh. The change takes place usually in accordance… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
If we could do away with death, we wouldn't object; to do away with capital punishment will be more difficult. Were that… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
What people call the spirit of the times is mostly their own spirit in which the times mirror themselves. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
It is only necessary to grow old to become more charitable and even indulgent. I see no fault committed by others that… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
In all times it is only individuals that have advanced science, not the age. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
However often we turn to it [the Koran] at first disgusting us each time afresh, it soon attracts, astounds, and in the… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
How marvelous, wide and broad is my Inheritance! Time is my property, my estate is time. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
So schaff' ich am sausenden Webstuhl der Zeit. Thus at Time's humming loom I ply. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Death is a commingling of eternity with time; in the death of a good man, eternity is seen looking through time. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Let us live in as small a circle as we will, we are either debtors or creditors before we have had time… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
There is no past we can bring back by longing for it. There is only an eternal now that builds and creates… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
The day is for mistake and error, sequence of time for success and carrying out. The one who anticipates is master of… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
“Love grants in a moment what toil can hardly achieve in an age.” — 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
Properly speaking, such work is never finished; one must declare it so when, according to time and circumstances, one has done one's… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
At the moment of commitment the entire universe conspires to assist you. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Time is a strange thing. It is a whimsical tyrant, which in every century has a different face for all that one… — 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
Die Zeit ist selbst ein Element. Time is itself an element. — 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
What dazzles, for the moment spends its spirit; Whats genuine, shall posterity inherit. — 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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