As to the value of conversions, God alone can judge. God alone can know how wide are the steps which the soul… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Without my attempts in natural science, I should never have learned to know mankind such as it is. In nothing else can… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
I have come to the frightening conclusion that I am the decisive element. It is my personal approach that creates the climate. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Why should we not recognize in the lightning, the thunder, and the storm wind, the approach of an overwhelming Power, and in… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
I have found a paper of mine among some others in which I call architecture 'petrified music.' Really there is something in… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
I have come to the frightening conclusion that I am the decisive element. It is my personal approach that creates the climate.… — 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 Image
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 Image
All lyrical work must, as a whole, be perfectly intelligible, but in some particulars a little unintelligible. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
We know accurately only when we know little, with knowledge doubt increases. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
