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
Nature is so perfect that the Trinity couldn't have fashioned her any more perfect. She is an organ on which our Lord… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Animals, we have been told, are taught by their organs. Yes, I would add, and so are men, but men have this… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Man knows himself only insofar as he knows the world, becoming aware of it if only within himself, and of himself self… — 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 phrases that men hear or repeat continually, end by becoming convictions and ossify the organs of intelligence. — 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
