It is in self-imitation that a master first shows himself. — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe Copy Share Image
It is in self-limitation that a master first shows himself. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Individuality of expression is the beginning and end of all art. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Certain faults are necessary to the individual if he is to exist. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Certain defects are necessary for the existence of individuality. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Tell me with whom you associate, and I will tell you who you are. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
I reverence the individual who understands distinctly what he wishes; who unweariedly advances, who knows the means conducive to his object, and… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
“Du hast so viele Leben, wie du Sprachen sprichst. (You have as many lives as the number of languages you speak.)” — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
The history of science is science itself; the history of the individual, the individual. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
What people call the spirit of the times is mostly their own spirit in which the times mirror themselves. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
If your treat an individual... as if he were what he ought to be and could be, he will become what he… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
The realization of the self is only possible if one is productive, if one can give birth to one's own potentialities. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Whatever is the lot of humankind I want to taste within my deepest self. I want to seize the highest and the… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
A school of art or of anything else is to be looked on as a single individual, who keeps talking to himself… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
“If you treat an individual as he is, he will remain how he is. But if you treat him as if he… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Mathematics has the completely false reputation of yielding infallible conclusions. Its infallibility is nothing but identity. Two times two is not four,… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
What am I then...? Everything that I have seen, heard, and observed I have collected and exploited. My works have been nourished by countless different individuals, by innocent and wise ones, people of intelligence and dunces. Childhood, maturity and old age all have brought me their thoughts…their perspectives on life. I have often reaped what others have sowed. My work… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share
Quite often, as life goes on, when we feel completely secure as we go on our way, we suddenly notice that we are trapped in error, that we have allowed ourselves to be taken in by individuals, by objects, have dreamt up an affinity with them which immediately vanishes before our waking eye; and yet we cannot tear ourselves away,… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share
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
