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
Let's plunge ourselves into the roar of time, the whirl of accident; may pain and pleasure, success and failure, shift as they… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
When I say to the Moment flying; 'Linger a while -- thou art so fair!' Then bind me in thy bonds undying,… — 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
Rejoice that you have still have a long time to live, before the thought comes to you that there is nothing more… — 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
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
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
If you have a great work in your head, nothing else thrives near it; all other thoughts are repelled, and the pleasure… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
The moment one definitely commits oneself, then Providence moves too. Whatever you think you can do, or believe you can do, begin… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
The important thing is not to know more than all men, but to know more at each moment than any particular man. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
The person who in shaky times also wavers only increases the evil, but the person of firm decision fashions the universe. — 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
Austere perseverance, hash and continuous... rarely fails of its purpose, for its silent power grows irresistible greater with time. — 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
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
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
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
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
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
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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