As long as you don't practice it, this dying and becoming, You are only a dreary guest on this dark earth. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
No one can take from us the joy of the first becoming aware of something, the so-called discovery. But if we also demand the honor, it can be utterly spoiled for us, for we are usually not the first. What does discovery mean, and who can say that he has discovered this or that? After all it's pure idiocy to… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share
Beauty and Genius must be kept afar if one would avoid becoming their slave. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Everything in science depends on what one calls an aperçu, on becoming aware of what is at the bottom of the phenomena.… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
When the healthy nature of man acts as a whole, when he feels himself to be in the world as in a… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
To appear at church every Sunday; to look down upon, and let himself be looked at for an hour by the congregation,… — 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
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 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
