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
He loves not who does not see the faults of the beloved as virtues. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
You don't love if you don't take the beloved's faults for virtues. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Beloved brother, let us not forget that man can never get away from himself. [Ger., Lass uns, geliebter Bruder, nicht vergessen, Dass… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
A life without love, without the presence of the beloved, is nothing but a mere magic-lantern show. We draw out slide after… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Such is the frailty of man that even where he makes the truest and most forcible impression in the memory, in the… — 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