Beautiful is greater than Good, for it includes the Good. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
If I say to the moment: 'Stay now! You are so beautiful'! — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
For the butterfly, mating and propagation involve the sacrifice of life, for the human being, the sacrifice of beauty. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
“The town itself is disagreeable; but then, all around, you find an inexpressible beauty of nature.” — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
One would give generous alms if one had the eyes to see the beauty of a cupped receiving hand. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Art is constitutive-the artist determines beauty. He does not take it over. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Beauty is a manifestation of secret natural laws, which otherwise would have been hidden from us forever. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
The beautiful is a phenomenon which is never apparent of itself, but is reflected in a thousand different works of the creator. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
It is impossible that beauty should ever distinctly appreciate itself. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
A mathematician is only perfect insofar as he is a perfect man, sensitive to the beauty of truth. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Beauty is a primeval phenomenon, which itself never makes its appearance, but the reflection of which is visible in a thousand different… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
We love a girl for very different qualities than understanding. We love her for her beauty, her youth, her mirth, her confidingness,… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Translators can be considered as busy matchmakers who praise as extremely desirable a half-veiled beauty. They arouse an irresistible yearning for the… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
The useful may be trusted to further itself, for many produce it and no one can do without it; but the beautiful… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
A man should hear a little music, read a little poetry, and see a fine picture every day of his life, in… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
“Our plans and designs should be so perfect in truth and beauty, that in touching them the world could only mar. We… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Vanity is a desire of personal glory, the wish to be appreciated, honoured, and run after, not because of one's personal qualities,… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
As all Nature's thousands changes But one changeless God proclaim; So in Art's wide kingdom ranges One sole meaning still the same:… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
“He could not deny that the beauty, the youth, the gracefulness, of the countess had made some impression on him: but his… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Beauty is at once the ultimate principle and the highest aim of art. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Where confidence is wanting, the most beautiful flower in the garland of love is missing. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Beauty and Genius must be kept afar if one would avoid becoming their slave. — 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
