The highest problem of any art is to cause by appearance the illusion of a higher reality. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Piety is not a goal but a means to attain through the purest peace of mind the highest culture. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
The highest happiness, the purest joys of life, wear out at last. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Beauty is at once the ultimate principle and the highest aim of art. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Man's highest merit always is, as much as possible, to rule external circumstances and as little as possible to let himself be… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Let no one be like another, yet everyone like the highest. How is this done? Be each one perfect in himself. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
The highest happiness of man ... is to have probed what is knowable and quietly to revere what is unknowable. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
The mark of highest originality lies in the ability to develop a familiar idea so fruitfully that it would seem no one… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
The true, prescriptive artist strives after artistic truth; the lawless artist, following blind instinct, after an appearance of naturalness. The one leads… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
In all things, to serve from the lowest station upwards is necessary. To restrict yourself to a trade is best. For the… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Piety is not an end, but a means: a means of attaining the highest culture by the purest tranquility of soul. Hence… — 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
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
All lyrical work must, as a whole, be perfectly intelligible, but in some particulars a little unintelligible. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share
We know accurately only when we know little, with knowledge doubt increases. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share
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
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
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
Just begin and the mind grows heated; continue, and the task will be completed! — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share
I look upon all four Gospels as thoroughly genuine, for there shines forth from them the reflected splendor of a sublimity proceeding from Jesus… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share
Whatever we may say against collections, which present authors in a disjointed form, they nevertheless bring about many excellent results. We are not always… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share
