Beautiful is greater than Good, for it includes the Good. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Perseverance is a silent power that grows irresistibly greater with time. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Man believes himself always greater than he is, and is esteemed less than he is worth. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Mediocrity has no greater consolation than in the thought that genius is not immortal. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
There is no greater consolation for mediocrity than that the genius is not immortal. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Austere perseverance, hash and continuous... rarely fails of its purpose, for its silent power grows irresistible greater with time. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Music, in the best sense, does not require novelty; nay, the older it is, and the more we are accustomed to it,… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Nature reacts not only to physical disease, but also to moral weakness; when the danger increases; she gives us greater courage — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Few rash of any modern nation have a proper sense of an aesthetical whole; they praise and blame by parts; they 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
