Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Napoleon for the sake of a good name broke in pieces half the world.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Nature does not suffer her veil to be taken from her, and what she does not choose to reveal to the spirit, thou wilt not wrest from her by levers and screws.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Neither a work of nature nor one of art we get to know when they have been finished; we must surprise them in the process of beingcreated so as to understand them to some degree.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

No one would talk much in society if they knew how often they misunderstood others.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Noble be man, helpful and good!

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Normally, people believe that, if they hear just words, that these words must lead to some thought.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Nothing is more fearful than imagination without taste.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Objects in pictures should so be arranged as by their very position to tell their own story.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Of all peoples the Greeks have dreamt the dream of life best.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

One doesn’t always lose when one has to do without.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe