Individuality of expression is the beginning and end of all art. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Hatred is something peculiar. You will always find it strongest and most violent where there is the lowest degree of culture. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Piety is not a goal but a means to attain through the purest peace of mind the highest culture. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Culture which smooth the whole world licks, Also unto the devil sticks. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Piety is not an end, but a means: a means of attaining the highest culture by the purest tranquility of soul. Hence… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
If the world does improve on the whole, yet youth must always begin anew, and go through the stages of culture from… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
A teacher who can arouse a feeling for one single good action, for one single good poem, accomplishes more than he who… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Even though the world as a whole progresses, youth must always start again from the beginning, and as individuals go through the… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Let mental culture go on advancing, let the natural sciences progress in even greater extent and depth, and the human mind widen… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Men are so inclined to content themselves with what is commonest; the spirit and the senses so easily grow dead to the impressions of the beautiful and perfect, that every one should study, by all methods, to nourish in his mind the faculty of feeling these things. ...For this reason, one ought every day at least, to hear a little… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share
Wealth and speed are what the world admires, what each pursues. Railways, express mails, steamships and every possible facility for communications are… — 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
