The hardest thing is to see what's under your very eyes. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
The eye doesn't see any shapes, it sees only what is differentiated through light and dark or through colors. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
One would give generous alms if one had the eyes to see the beauty of a cupped receiving hand. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Every decided colour does a certain violence to the eye, and forces the organ to opposition. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
What is hardest of all? That which seems most simple: to see with your eyes what is before your eyes. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Were the eye not of the sun, How could we behold the light? If God's might and ours were not as one,… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Reality surpasses imagination; and we see, breathing, brightening, and moving before our eyes sights dearer to our hearts than any we ever… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Light has called forth one organ to become its like, and thus the eye is formed by the light and for the… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Take care of your body with steadfast fidelity. The soul must see through these eyes alone, and if they are dim, the… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Were not the eye made to receive the rays of the sun, it could not behold the sun; if the peculiar power… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Truth is a torch but a tremendous one. That is why we hurry past it, shielding our eyes, indeed, in fear of… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
If a good person does you wrong, act as though you had not noticed it. If we practice and eye for an… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
The soul is indestructible and its activity will continue through eternity. It is like the sun, which, to our eyes, seems to… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
What is now the foliage moving? Air is still, and hush'd the breeze, Sultriness, this fullness loving, Through the thicket, from the… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
The summit charms us, the steps to it do not; with the heights before our eyes, we like to linger in the… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
None are so hopelessly enslaved, as those who falsely believe they are free. The truth has been kept from the depth of… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
The thought of death leaves me in perfect peace, for I have a firm conviction that our spirit is a being of… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Pain and pleasure, good and evil, come to us from unexpected sources. It is not there where we have gathered up our brightest hopes, that the dawn of happiness breaks. It is not there where we have glanced our eye with affright, that we find the deadliest gloom. What should this teach us? To bow to the great and only… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share
Quite often, as life goes on, when we feel completely secure as we go on our way, we suddenly notice that we are trapped in error, that we have allowed ourselves to be taken in by individuals, by objects, have dreamt up an affinity with them which immediately vanishes before our waking eye; and yet we cannot tear ourselves away,… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share
The light is there, and colors surround us. However, if there were no light nor colors in our own eye, we wouldn't… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
We find from experience that yellow excites a warm and agreeable impression… The eye is gladdened, the heart expanded and cheered, a… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Truth is a torch, but a huge one, and so it is only with blinking eyes what we all of us try… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
The most difficult thing is what is thought to be the simplest; to really see the things which are before your eyes. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Truth is a torch, but a terrific one; therefore we all try to reach it with closed eyes, lest we should be… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
There is nothing outside of us that is not at the same time in us, and as the external world has its… — 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
