The work of art may have a moral effect, but to demand moral purpose from the artist is to make him ruin… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
A talent is formed in stillness, a character in the world's torrent. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
We rather confess our moral errors, faults, and crimes than our ignorance. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
There is nothing in which people more betray their character than in what they laugh at. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
A talent can be cultivated in tranquility; a character only in the rushing stream of life. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Talents are nurtured best in solitude, But character on life's tempestuous seas! — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
The formation of one's character ought to be everyone's chief aim. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Conscience is the virtue of the observers not the agents of action — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
To be sure, a good work of art can and will have moral consequences, but to demand of the artists moral intentions,… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Moral epochs have their course as well as the seasons. We can no more hold them fast than we can hold sun,… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Talent is nurtured in solitude; character is formed in the stormy billows of the world. [Ger., Es bildet ein talent sich in… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
One should not wish anyone disagreeable conditions of life; but for him who is involved in them by chance, they are touchstones… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
There is nothing by which men display their character so much as in what they consider ridiculous... Fools and sensible men are… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
It is the color closest to light. In its utmost purity it always implies the nature of brightness and has a cheerful,… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
What is the true test of character unless it be its progressive development in the bustle and turmoil, in the action and… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Talent is nurtured in solitude; character is formed in the stormy billows of the world. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Nothing tells more about the character of a man than the things he makes fun of. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
You can easily judge the character of a man by how he treats those who can do nothing for him. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
“There is nothing in which people more betray their character than in what they find to laugh at.” — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Wine rejoices the heart of man and joy is the mother of all virtues. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Men show their character in nothing more clearly than what they think laughable. — 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
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
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