It is easier to perceive error than to find truth, for the former lies on the surface and is easily seen, while… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
“Our plans and designs should be so perfect in truth and beauty, that in touching them the world could only mar. We… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
None are so hopelessly enslaved, as those who falsely believe they are free. The truth has been kept from the depth of… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
All truths are old, and all that we have to do is recognize and utter them anew. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
But who will dare to speak the truth out clear? The few who anything of truth have learned, And foolishly did not… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
“He could not deny that the beauty, the youth, the gracefulness, of the countess had made some impression on him: but his… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
People always fancy that we must become old to become wise; but, in truth, as years advance, it is hard to keep… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Truth is a torch but a tremendous one. That is why we hurry past it, shielding our eyes, indeed, in fear of… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
“There is one elementary truth, the ignorance of which kills countless ideas and splendid plans: that the moment one definitely commits oneself… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
I can promise to be sincere, but I cannot promise to be impartial. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
A mathematician is only perfect insofar as he is a perfect man, sensitive to the beauty of truth. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
“I prefer an injurious truth to a useful error. Truth heals any pain it may inflict on us.” — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
The Primal Plant is going be the strangest creature in the world, which Nature herself must envy me. With this model and… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
It is much easier to meet with error than to find truth; error is on the surface, and can be more easily… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
War is in truth a disease in which the juices that serve health and maintenance are used for the sole purpose of… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
First and last, what is demanded of genius is love of truth. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
I can tell you, honest friend, what to believe: believe life; it teaches better than book or orator. — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe Copy Share Image
“Unhappily, moreover, on such occasions, a multitude of painful discoveries about my own sex were forced upon me; and, in truth, I… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
The true, prescriptive artist strives after artistic truth; the lawless artist, following blind instinct, after an appearance of naturalness. The one leads… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
The first and last thing required of genius is the love of truth. [Ger., Das erste und letzte, was vom Genie gefordert… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Help me to discover Thy truth, O Lord, and preserve me from those who have already found it — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
The brilliant passes, like the dew at morn; The true endures, for ages yet unborn. — 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
