Tolerance should really be only a temporary attitude; it must lead to recognition. To tolerate means to offend. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Toleration ought in reality to be merely a transitory mood. It must lead to recognition. To tolerate is to affront. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Tolerance should really only be a passing attitude: it should lead to appreciation. To tolerate is to offend. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
A state of true and universal tolerance is best ensured by leaving alone the peculiarities of men and peoples. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
I let everyone follow his own bent, that I may be free to follow mine. — 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
Tolerance should, strictly speaking, be only a passing mood; it ought to lead to acknowledgment and appreciation. To tolerate a person is… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
One criticizes the English for carrying their teapots wherever they go, even lugging them up Mount Etna. But doesn't every nationhave its… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
“What's foreign one can't always keep quite clear of, For good things, oft, are not so near; A German can't endure 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
