Kindness is the golden thread that holds society together. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
What chance gathers, she easily scatters. A great person attracts great people and knows how to hold them together. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
To the world you might be one person, but to one person, you might be the world. Kindness is the golden chain… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
If one has not read the newspapers for some months and then reads them all together, one sees, as one never saw… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Wind is the loving Wooer of waters; Wind blends together Billows all-foaming. Spirit of man, Thou art like unto water! Fortune of… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
There are situations in which hope and fear run together, in which they mutually destroy one another and lose themselves in dull… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
The thinker makes a great mistake when he asks after cause and effect. They both together make up the indivisible phenomenon. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
The Christian religion, though scattered and abroad will in the end gather itself together at the foot of the cross. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Hold your powers together for something good and let everything go that is for you without result and is not suited to… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Love has the tendency of pressing together all the lights - all the rays emitted from the beloved object by the burning-glass… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
You can’t, if you can’t feel it, if it never Rises from the soul, and sways The heart of every single hearer,… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
[Nature's] crown is Love. Only through Love can we come near her. She puts gulfs between all things, and all things strive… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
When we see the many grave-stones which have fallen in, which have been defaced by the footsteps of the congregation, which lie buried under the ruins of the churches, that have themselves crumbled together over them; we may fancy the life after death to be as a second life, into which man enters in the figure, or the picture or… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share
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