“15 "General ideas and great conceit are always a fair way to bring about terrible misfortune.” — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
“Des Menschen Kraft, im Dichter offenbart The human power is revealed by poet Il potere dell'umanità si rivela nel poeta” — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
“When the sound and wholesome nature of man acts as an entirety, when he feels himself in the world as in a… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
“All theory is gray, my friend. But forever green is the tree of life.” — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
“There is nothing in which people more betray their character than in what they find to laugh at.” — 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
