The greatest genius will not be worth much if he pretends to draw exclusively from his own resources — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
The hero draws inspiration from the virtue of his ancestors. — 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
He who knows no foreign languages knows nothing of his own. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Analysis and synthesis are both as necessary to the thinking spirit as inspiration and expiration to the organism. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
One can be instructed in society, one is inspired only in solitude. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
I had toward the poetic art a peculiar relation which was only practical after I had cherished in my mind for a… — 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
