The greater part of all the mischief in the world arises from the fact that men do not sufficiently understand their own… — 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
Prudent and active men, who know their strength and use it with limit and circumspection, alone go far in the affairs of… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
The march of intellect, which licks all the world into shape, has even reached the devil. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Wealth and speed are what the world admires, what each pursues. Railways, express mails, steamships and every possible facility for communications are… — 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
Take care of your body with steadfast fidelity. The soul must see through these eyes alone, and if they are dim, the… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Whoever would do good in the world, ought not to deal in censure. We ought not to destroy, but rather construct. — 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
Let everyone sweep in front of his own door, and the whole world will be clean. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
He who does not see the whole world in his friends, does not deserve that the world should hear of him. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
The world is for thousands a freak show; the images flicker past and vanish; the impressions remain flat and unconnected in the… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
This world could not exist if it were not so simple. The ground has been tilled a thousand years, yet its powers… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Wild dreams torment me as I lie. And though a god lives in my heart, though all my power waken at his… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
To be sure, we have inherited abilities, but our development we owe to thousands of influences coming from the world around us… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
People may live as much retired from the world as they please; but sooner or later, before they are aware, they will… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
All ages have said and repeated that one should strive to know one's self. This is a strange demand which no one… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Character is constructed amidst the tempests of the World — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
There is repetition everywhere, and nothing is found only once in the world. — 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
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
The style of writing required in the great world is distinguished by a free and daring grace, a careless security, a fine… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
No limit, no definition, may restrict the range or depth of the human spirit's passage into its own secrets or the world's. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Anecdotes and maxims are rich treasures to the man of the world, for he knows how to introduce the former at fit… — 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
