When two men quarrel, who owns the cooler head is the more to blame. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Do you want to live happily? Travel with two bags, one for giving, the other for receiving. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Science arose from poetry... when times change the two can meet again on a higher level as friends. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
When two people are really happy about one another one can generally assume they are mistaken. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
There are only two lasting bequests we can hope to give our children. One of these is roots, the other, wings. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Some of our weaknesses are born in us, others are the result of education; it is a question which of the two… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
To make an epoch in the world, two conditions are manifestly essential-a good head and a great inheritance. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
There are two things children should get from their parents: roots and wings. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
two souls, alas, are housed within my breast, and each will wrestle for the mastery there. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
There are two things parents should give their children roots and wings. Roots to give them bearing and a sense of belonging,… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Energy will do anything that can be done in the world; and no talents, no circumstances, no opportunities will make a two-legged… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
There is nothing in the world more pitiable than an irresolute man, oscillating between two feelings, who would willingly unite the two… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
The sum which two married people owe to one another defies calculation. It is an infinite debt, which can only be discharged… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
No two people see the world exactly alike, and different temperaments will often apply the same principle, recognized by both, differently. Even… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Misunderstandings and neglect create more confusion in this world than trickery and malice. At any rate, the last two are certainly much… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
When the boy begins to understand that the visible point is preceded by an invisible point, that the shortest distance between two… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
No two men see the world exactly alike, and different temperaments will apply in different ways a principle that they both acknowledge.… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
What is now the foliage moving? Air is still, and hush'd the breeze, Sultriness, this fullness loving, Through the thicket, from the… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
There are but two roads that lead to an important goal and to the doing of great things: strength and perseverance. Strength… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
True observers of nature, although they may think differently, will still agree that everything that is, everything that is observable as a… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Mathematics has the completely false reputation of yielding infallible conclusions. Its infallibility is nothing but identity. Two times two is not four,… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
The decline in literature indicates a decline in the nation. The two keep pace in their downward tendency. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
No two men see the world exactly alike, and different temperaments will apply in different ways a principle that they both acknowledge. — 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
