Nothing is more fearful than imagination without taste. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Humans fear reason, but they ought to fear stupidity- for reason can be hard, but stupidity can be fatal. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
One usually thinks people to be more dangerous than they are. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Hope enough to remove all anxious fears concerning the future. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
He only fears men who does not know them, and he who avoids them will soon misjudge them. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
There are situations in which hope and fear run together, in which they mutually destroy one another and lose themselves in dull… — 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
It is the strange fate of man, that even in the greatest of evils the fear of the worst continues to haunt… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
There is nothing more fearful than imagination without taste. [Ger., Es ist nichts furchterlicher als Einbildungskraft ohne Geschmack.] — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Art is in itself noble; that is why the artist has no fear of what is common. This, indeed, is already ennobled… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Know'st thou yesterday, its aim and reason? Work'st thou will today for worthier things? Then calmly wait the morrow's hidden season, And… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
“I know what science this has come to be. All rights and laws are still transmitted Like an eternal sickness of the… — 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