It is in self-imitation that a master first shows himself. — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe Copy Share Image
Individuality of expression is the beginning and end of all art. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
It is in self-limitation that a master first shows himself. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Certain defects are necessary for the existence of individuality. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Tell me with whom you associate, and I will tell you who you are. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Certain faults are necessary to the individual if he is to exist. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
I reverence the individual who understands distinctly what he wishes; who unweariedly advances, who knows the means conducive to his object, and… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
What people call the spirit of the times is mostly their own spirit in which the times mirror themselves. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
If your treat an individual... as if he were what he ought to be and could be, he will become what he… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
The history of science is science itself; the history of the individual, the individual. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
The realization of the self is only possible if one is productive, if one can give birth to one's own potentialities. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
“Du hast so viele Leben, wie du Sprachen sprichst. (You have as many lives as the number of languages you speak.)” — 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
A school of art or of anything else is to be looked on as a single individual, who keeps talking to himself… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
“If you treat an individual as he is, he will remain how he is. But if you treat him as if he… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
What am I then...? Everything that I have seen, heard, and observed I have collected and exploited. My works have been nourished… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Mathematics has the completely false reputation of yielding infallible conclusions. Its infallibility is nothing but identity. Two times two is not four,… — 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… — 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
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
All lyrical work must, as a whole, be perfectly intelligible, but in some particulars a little unintelligible. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share
We know accurately only when we know little, with knowledge doubt increases. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share
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
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
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
Just begin and the mind grows heated; continue, and the task will be completed! — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share
I look upon all four Gospels as thoroughly genuine, for there shines forth from them the reflected splendor of a sublimity proceeding from Jesus… — 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… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share
