Words are mere sound and smoke, dimming the heavenly light. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Names are but noise and smoke, Obscuring heavenly light. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Lamps make oil-spots and candles need snuffing; it is only the light of heaven that shines pure and leaves no stain. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
What reason would grope for in vain, spontaneous impulse ofttimes achieves at a stroke, with light and pleasureful guidance. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
The eye doesn't see any shapes, it sees only what is differentiated through light and dark or through colors. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Were the eye not of the sun, How could we behold the light? If God's might and ours were not as one,… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Someday perhaps the inner light will shine forth from us, and then we'll need no other light. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Where there is much light, the shadows are deepest. [Ger., Wo viel Licht is, ist starker Schatten.] — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Every decided colour does a certain violence to the eye, and forces the organ to opposition. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Let your trouble be Light will follow dark Though the heaven falls You may hear the lark. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
There is no trifling with nature; it is always true, grave, and severe; it is always in the light, and the faults… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
A vi'let on the meadow grew, That no one saw, that no one knew, It was a modest flower. A shepherdess pass'd… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Light has called forth one organ to become its like, and thus the eye is formed by the light and for the… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Generally speaking, an author's style is a faithful copy of his mind. If you would write a lucid style, let there first… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Higher yet and higher out of clouds and night, nearer yet and nearer rising to the light - light, serene and holy… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
The soul is indestructible and its activity will continue through eternity. It is like the sun, which, to our eyes, seems to… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
The light is there, and colors surround us. However, if there were no light nor colors in our own eye, we wouldn't… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Mysterious in the light of day, nature retains her veil, despite our clamours: That which she does not willingly display cannot be… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Someday someone will write a pathology of experimental physics and bring to light all those swindles which subvert our reason, beguile our… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Sweet moonlight, shining full and clear, Why do you light my torture here? How often have you seen me toil, Burning last… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Pain and pleasure, good and evil, come to us from unexpected sources. It is not there where we have gathered up our brightest hopes, that the dawn of happiness breaks. It is not there where we have glanced our eye with affright, that we find the deadliest gloom. What should this teach us? To bow to the great and only… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share
I am part of the part that once was everything, Part of the darkness which gave birth to light… Mephistopheles, from Faust. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
The rainbow mirrors human aims and action. Think, and more clearly wilt thou grasp it, seeing Life is but light in many-hued… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
“Only air and light and the love of friends! Let no man lose heart who still has these.” — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Love has the tendency of pressing together all the lights - all the rays emitted from the beloved object by the burning-glass… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
It is the color closest to light. In its utmost purity it always implies the nature of brightness and has a cheerful,… — 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
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