Names are but noise and smoke, Obscuring heavenly light. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Words are mere sound and smoke, dimming the heavenly light. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Where there is much light, the shadows are deepest. [Ger., Wo viel Licht is, ist starker Schatten.] — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Every decided colour does a certain violence to the eye, and forces the organ to opposition. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
The eye doesn't see any shapes, it sees only what is differentiated through light and dark or through colors. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
What reason would grope for in vain, spontaneous impulse ofttimes achieves at a stroke, with light and pleasureful guidance. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Were the eye not of the sun, How could we behold the light? If God's might and ours were not as one,… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Someday perhaps the inner light will shine forth from us, and then we'll need no other light. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Lamps make oil-spots and candles need snuffing; it is only the light of heaven that shines pure and leaves no stain. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
The rainbow mirrors human aims and action. Think, and more clearly wilt thou grasp it, seeing Life is but light in many-hued… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Light has called forth one organ to become its like, and thus the eye is formed by the light and for the… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Generally speaking, an author's style is a faithful copy of his mind. If you would write a lucid style, let there first… — 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
There is no trifling with nature; it is always true, grave, and severe; it is always in the light, and the faults… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
It is the color closest to light. In its utmost purity it always implies the nature of brightness and has a cheerful,… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Love has the tendency of pressing together all the lights - all the rays emitted from the beloved object by the burning-glass… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
The light is there, and colors surround us. However, if there were no light nor colors in our own eye, we wouldn't… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Mysterious in the light of day, nature retains her veil, despite our clamours: That which she does not willingly display cannot be… — 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
Pain and pleasure, good and evil, come to us from unexpected sources. It is not there where we have gathered up our… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
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
“We may get to know the world however we choose, it will always keep a day and night aspect.” — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
“Only air and light and the love of friends! Let no man lose heart who still has these.” — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Let your trouble be Light will follow dark Though the heaven falls You may hear the lark. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
I am part of the part that once was everything, Part of the darkness which gave birth to light… Mephistopheles, from Faust. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Higher yet and higher out of clouds and night, nearer yet and nearer rising to the light - light, serene and holy… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Tomorrow the sun will also rise to the occasion of another day with equal grandeur. Such is the nature of that morrow… — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe Copy Share Image
The soul is indestructible and its activity will continue through eternity. It is like the sun, which, to our eyes, seems to… — 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
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