True works of art are a manifestation of the higher laws of nature. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
“It's in the anomalies that nature reveals its secrets.” — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
I'm an optimist by nature and a pessimist by experience. — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe Copy Share Image
The most damaging prejudice consists of banning any kind of investigation of nature. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
We are pantheists when we study nature, polytheists when we write poetry, monotheists in our morality. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
“Indeed, I am nothing but a wanderer and a pilgrim on this earth! And what more are you?” — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
By nature we have no defect that could not become a strength, no strength that could not become a defect. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Nature reacts not only to physical disease, but also to moral weakness; when the danger increases; she gives us greater courage — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Nature knows no pause in progress and development, and attaches her curse on all inaction. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
I believe in God and in nature and in the triumph of good over evil. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
If I work incessantly to the last, nature owes me another form of existence when the present one collapses. — 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
How fair doth Nature Appear again! How bright the sunbeams! How smiles the plain! The flow'rs are bursting From ev'ry bough, And… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
No man learns to know his inmost nature by introspection, for he rates himself sometimes too low, and often too high, by… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Neither a work of nature nor one of art we get to know when they have been finished; we must surprise them… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
In nature we never see anything isolated, but everything in connection with something else which is before it, beside it, under it… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
The spectacle of Nature is always new, for she is always renewing the spectators. Life is her most exquisite invention; and death… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
“The most privileged position, in life as in society, is that of an educated soldier. Rough warriors, at any rate, remain true… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Nature is beneficent. I praise her and all her works. She is silent and wise. She is cunning, but for good ends.… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
The longer I live, the more it grieves me to see man, who occupies his supreme place for the very purpose of… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
As for solitude, I cannot understand how certain people seek to lay claim to intellectual stature, nobility of soul and strength of… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
[Nature's] crown is Love. Only through Love can we come near her. She puts gulfs between all things, and all things strive… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
“Nature understands no jesting; she is always true, always serious, always severe; she is always right, and the errors and faults are… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
I am certain that I have been here as I am now a thousand times before, and I hope to return a… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
The thought of death leaves me in perfect peace, for I have a firm conviction that our spirit is a being of… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
No one is willing to believe that adults too, like children, wander about this earth in a daze and, like children, do… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
There is a great difference, whether the poet seeks the particular for the sake of the general or sees the general in… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
“And when I look around the apartment where I now am,—when I see Charlotte’s apparel lying before me, and Albert’s writings, and… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
“When the sound and wholesome nature of man acts as an entirety, when he feels himself in the world as in a… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
“My father gave my stature tall, And rule of life decorous; My mother my nature genial And joy in making stories; Full… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
“Your suns and worlds are not within my ken, I merely watch the plaguey state of men. The little god of earth… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Nature has neither kernel nor shell; she is everything at once — 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
![“[Nature's] crown is Love. Only through Love can we come near her. She puts gulfs between all things, and all things strive to be interfused. She isolates everything, that she may draw everything together. With a few draughts from the cup of Love she repays for a life full of trouble.” quote by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/8bc/johann-wolfgang-von-goethe-36_all-things_nature-s-crown-is-love-only-through-love_2426346.jpg)
