Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

was a German writer, pictorial artist, biologist, theoretical physicist, and polymath

If the word is not dead when it reaches the hearer, he murders it at once by a contradiction, a stipulation, a condition, a digression, an interruption, and all the thousand tricks of conversation.More Johann Wolfgang von Goethe quotes [03/29/2018 05:03:36]

We don't get to know people when they come to us; we must go to them to find out what they are like.More Johann Wolfgang von Goethe quotes [03/29/2018 05:03:36]

Be above it! Make the world serve your purpose, but do not serve it.More Johann Wolfgang von Goethe quotes [01/01/2000 12:01:00]

Nature goes her own way and all that to us seems an exception is really according to order.More Johann Wolfgang von Goethe quotes [03/29/2018 05:03:36]

In art the best is good enough.More Johann Wolfgang von Goethe quotes [08/19/2011 09:08:27]

Quotes of the month

A thought must tell at once, or not at all. [03/29/2018 05:03:36] More

I would like to call your attention to ... an evil that, if allowed to continue, will probably lead to great trouble ... It is the accumulation of vast amounts of untaxed church property. [03/29/2018 05:03:36] More

Overconsumption and overpopulation underlie every environmental problem we face today [03/29/2018 05:03:36] More

I spend hours playing chess because I find it so much fun. The day it stops being fun is the day I give up. [03/29/2018 05:03:36] More

I, personally, have found reading a continual support to writing. [03/29/2018 05:03:36] More