If in the infinite you want to stride, Just walk in the finite to every side. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
If you want to get pleasure out of life, you must attach value to the world. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
To quit smoking, you must first want to quit, but then you must also do the quitting — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
If you want to reach the infinite, then explore every aspect of the finite. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Religion is not in want of art; it rests on its own majesty. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
If you want someone to develop a specific trait, treat them as though they already had it. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Ill-humor is nothing more than an inward feeling of our own want of merit, a dissatisfaction with ourselves which is always united… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Mannerism always wants to be finished and doesn't enjoy the process. Genuine, truly great talent, however, finds its greatest satisfaction in the… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
If there is confusion in your head and in your heart, what more do you want! A man who no longer loves… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Nothing is good for a nation but that which arises from its own core and its own general wants, without apish imitation… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
If you want to understand poetry, You have to go to its origin, If you want to understand the poet, You have… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Seldom in the business and transactions of ordinary life, do we find the sympathy we want. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Painting predicates what man wants to see, and what man ought to see, not what he ordinarily sees. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Nothing is more disgusting than the majority: because it consists of a few powerful predecessors, of rogues who adapt themselves, of weak… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Whatever is the lot of humankind I want to taste within my deepest self. I want to seize the highest and the… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
To live within limits. To want one thing. Or a few things very much and love them dearly. Cling to them, survey… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
The misfortune in the state is, that nobody can enjoy life in peace, but that everybody must govern; and in art, that… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
A leaf that is destined to grow large is full of grooves and wrinkles at the start. Now if one has no… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Faith is a homely, private capital; as there are public savings-banks and poor funds, out of which in times of want we… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
The longer I live, the more it grieves me to see man, who occupies his supreme place for the very purpose of imposing his will upon nature, and freeing himself and his from an outrageous necessity--to see him taken up with some false notion, and doing just the opposite of what he wants to do; and then, because the whole… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share
Great possessions and great want of them are both strong temptations. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Don't say that you want to give, but go ahead and give! You'll never catch up with a mere hope. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
If you treat men the way they are you never improve them. If you treat them the way you want them to… — 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
A vain man can never be utterly ruthless: he wants to win applause and therefore he accommodates himself to others — 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
