Hypotheses are the scaffolds which are erected in front of a building and removedd when the building is completed. They are indispensable… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
The fate of the architect is the strangest of all. How often he expends his whole soul, his whole heart and passion,… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Three things are to be looked to in a building: that it stand on the right spot; that it is securely founded;… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Hypotheses are only the pieces of scaffolding which are erected round a building during the course of construction, and which are taken… — 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
