Even the lowliest, provided he is whole, can be happy, and in his own . way, perfect. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
It doesn't behoove elderly persons to follow fashion in their thinking nor in the way they dress. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Nature goes on her way, and all that to us seems an exception is really according to order. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Nature goes her own way, and all that to us seems an exception is really according to order. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Every author in some way portrays himself in his works, even if it be against his will. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
There is no way to face the great advantages of another person than through love. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Of the truly creative no one is ever master; it must be left to go its own way. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Every bird has its decoy, and every man is led and misled in his own peculiar way. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Tell me, how do you cope so calmly With crazy youth's arrogant way? Indeed, youth would be insufferable, Had I myself not… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
That is the way of youth and life in general: that we do not understand the strategy until after the campaign is… — 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
A vi'let on the meadow grew, That no one saw, that no one knew, It was a modest flower. A shepherdess pass'd… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
A plant is like a self-willed man, out of whom we can obtain all which we desire, if we will only treat… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
There speaks the man of truly noble ways, Who will not listen to the words of praise. In modesty averse, and with… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Someone criticized an elderly man for wooing young women. He replied that that was the only way to rejuvenation, which was, afterall,… — 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
Someday someone will write a pathology of experimental physics and bring to light all those swindles which subvert our reason, beguile our… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
The moment one definitely commits oneself, then Providence moves, too. All sorts of things occur to help one that would never have… — 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
From inaccessible mountain range by way of desert untrod by human foot to the ends of the unknown seas, the breath of… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Not all that is presented to us as history has really happened; and what really happened did not actually happen the way… — 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. The same man will, indeed, often see and judge the same things differently on different occasions: early convictions must give way to more mature ones. Nevertheless, may not the opinions that a man holds and expresses withstand all… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share
Sweet moonlight, shining full and clear, Why do you light my torture here? How often have you seen me toil, Burning last… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
What men usually say of misfortunes, that they never come alone, may with equal truth be said of good fortune; nay, of… — 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 phenomenon, can only exhibit itself in one of two ways. It is either a primal polarity that is able to unify, or it is a primal unity that is able to divide. The operation of nature consists of… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share
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
Quite often, as life goes on, when we feel completely secure as we go on our way, we suddenly notice that we are trapped in error, that we have allowed ourselves to be taken in by individuals, by objects, have dreamt up an affinity with them which immediately vanishes before our waking eye; and yet we cannot tear ourselves away,… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share
Whatever we may say against collections, which present authors in a disjointed form, they nevertheless bring about many excellent results. We are not always so composed, so full of wisdom, that we are able to take in at once the whole scope of a work according to its merits. Do we not mark in a book passages which seem to… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share
Destiny grants us our wishes, but in its own way, in order to give us something beyond our wishes. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
When married one has to get into an argument once in a while since in this way one learns about the other. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
The best way to understand a painting is by drawing it. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Confronted by outstanding merit, there is no way of saving one's ego except by love — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
The way you see people is the way you treat them, and the way you treat them is what they become. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
A good man, through obscurest aspirations Has still an instinct of the one true way. — 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
Look at a man the way he is and he only becomes worse, but look at him as if he were what… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Treat people the way they are and they will stay that way. Treat people the way they can become and they will… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
And we went our separate ways without having understood each other. As in this world nobody understands the other easily. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Truth is contrary to our nature, not so error, and this for a very simple reason: truth demands that we should recognize… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Treat a person as they are, they will remain so. Treat a person the way that person can be and is capable… — 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
