Imagination Quotes by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

17 Imagination quotes by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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Goethe’s imagination bridges emotion and intellect, and these 17 lines reflect his Romantic belief that creative insight fuels both art and personal growth.

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Everything is both simpler than we can imagine and more entangled than we can conceive.

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“There is nothing more dreadful than imagination without taste.”

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Nothing is more fearful than imagination without taste.

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Few men have imagination enough for reality.

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There is nothing more frightful than imagination without taste.

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Few people have the imagination for reality.

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Every idea appears at first as a strange visitor, and when it begins to be realized, it is hardly distinguishable from fantasy.

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Reality surpasses imagination; and we see, breathing, brightening, and moving before our eyes sights dearer to our hearts than any we ever…

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“Imagination, however high it flies, Falls short, however hard it tries. But spirits fit to see deeply invest In what is boundless…

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Our mistakes and failures are always the first to strike us, and outweigh in our imagination what we have accomplished and attained.

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There is nothing more fearful than imagination without taste. [Ger., Es ist nichts furchterlicher als Einbildungskraft ohne Geschmack.]

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No doubt you are right... there would be far less suffering amongst mankind if men... did not employ their imaginations so assiduously…

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There would be far less suffering in the world if human beings-God knows why they are made like this-did not use their…

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Profoundness, genius, spontaneity, merit, nobility, ingenuity, voice propriety, feeling, discernment, sensibility, good taste, great tone, rightness, courtliness, vivacity, boldness, style, freshness, harmony,…

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The thinking person has the strange characteristic to like to create a fantasy in the place of the unsolved problem, a fantasy…

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I examine my own being, and find there a world, but a world rather of imagination and dim desires, than of distinctness…

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The Primal Plant is going be the strangest creature in the world, which Nature herself must envy me. With this model and…

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True works of art contain their own theory and give us the measurement according to which we should judge them.

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I never believed in trying to do anything. Whatever I set out to do I found I had already accomplished.

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All lyrical work must, as a whole, be perfectly intelligible, but in some particulars a little unintelligible.

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We know accurately only when we know little, with knowledge doubt increases.

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It is easier to perceive error than to find truth, for the former lies on the surface and is easily seen, while the latter…

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There is no patriotic art and no patriotic science.

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The connoisseur of art must be able to appreciate what is simply beautiful, but the common run of people is satisfied with ornament

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Nothing is worse than active ignorance.

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Let us not dream that reason can ever be popular. Passions, emotions, may be made popular; but reason remains ever the property of an…

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Our foibles are really what make us lovable.

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Instruction does much, but encouragement everything.

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Giving is the business of the rich.

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Just begin and the mind grows heated; continue, and the task will be completed!

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I look upon all four Gospels as thoroughly genuine, for there shines forth from them the reflected splendor of a sublimity proceeding from Jesus…

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