Flowers are the beautiful hieroglyphics of nature with which she indicates how much she loves us. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
If it is the greatest truth that you seek, the plants can direct you. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
If you want to reach the infinite, then explore every aspect of the finite. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
The flowers of life are but illusions. How many fade away and leave no trace. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Plants and flowers of the commonest kind can form a pleasing diary, because nothing which calls back to us the remembrance of… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
A plant is like a self-willed man, out of whom we can obtain all which we desire, if we will only treat… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
To know someone here or there with whom you can feel there is understanding in spite of distances or thoughts expressed That… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
A vi'let on the meadow grew, That no one saw, that no one knew, It was a modest flower. A shepherdess pass'd… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
The flowers of life are but visionary. How many pass away and leave no trace behind! How few yield any fruit,--and the… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
The bed of flowers Loosens amain, The beauteous snowdrops Droop o'er the plain. The crocus opens Its glowing bud, Like emeralds others,… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
The world is so empty if one thinks only of mountains, rivers and cities; but to know someone who thinks and feels… — 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
