Nothing is more fearful than imagination without taste. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
The decline in literature indicates a decline in the nation. The two keep pace in their downward tendency. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
“There is nothing more dreadful than imagination without taste.” — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Of the truly creative no one is ever master; it must be left to go its own way. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
There is nothing more frightful than imagination without taste. — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe Copy Share Image
Everything has been thought of before, but the problem is to think of it again. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
One never goes so far as when one doesn't know where one is going. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
People are always talking about originality, but what do they mean? As soon as we are born, the world begins to work… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
The most foolish of all errors is for clever young men to believe that they forfeit their originality in recognizing a truth… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
The most original of authors are not so because they advance what is new, but more because they know how to say… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
“The most foolish of all errors is for clever young men to believe that they forfeit their originality in recognising a truth… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
“Through an intuitive perception of eternally creative nature we may become worthy of participating spiritually in its creative process” — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Every individual who is not creative has a negative, narrow, exclusive taste and succeeds in depriving creative being of its energy and… — 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
The mark of highest originality lies in the ability to develop a familiar idea so fruitfully that it would seem no one… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Everything that we call Invention or Discovery in the higher sense of the word is the serious exercise and activity of an… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
From inaccessible mountain range by way of desert untrod by human foot to the ends of the unknown seas, the breath of… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
People are always talking about originality; but what do they mean? As soon as we are born, the world begins to work… — 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
