“The town itself is disagreeable; but then, all around, you find an inexpressible beauty of nature.” — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Stood I, O Nature! man alone in thee, Then were it worth one's while a man to be. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
To every one [Nature] appears in a form of his own. She hides herself in a thousand names and terms, and is… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
A man may twist as he pleases, and do what he pleases, but he inevitably comes back to the track to which… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Flowers are the beautiful hieroglyphics of nature with which she indicates how much she loves us. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Do not give in too much to feelings. A overly sensitive heart is an unhappy possession on this shaky earth. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
For the nature of a women is closely allied to art. [Ger., Denn das Naturell der Frauen Ist so nah mit Kunst… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
For that is love's nature that it lays claim to exclusive right and that all other claims are nil. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
To me the external existence of my soul is proved from my idea of activity. If I work incessantly until my death,… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
“Through an intuitive perception of eternally creative nature we may become worthy of participating spiritually in its creative process” — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
“As long as on the earth endures his life To deal with him have full and free permission; Man's hour on earth… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
War is in truth a disease in which the juices that serve health and maintenance are used for the sole purpose of… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Wherever a man may happen to turn, whatever a man may undertake, he will always end up by returning to the path… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
The world is so empty if one thinks only of mountains, rivers and cities; but to know someone here and there who… — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe Copy Share Image
Nature is so perfect that the Trinity couldn't have fashioned her any more perfect. She is an organ on which our Lord… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
I hold to faith in the divine love - which, so many years ago for a brief moment in a little corner… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
What is now the foliage moving? Air is still, and hush'd the breeze, Sultriness, this fullness loving, Through the thicket, from the… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
The Primal Plant is going be the strangest creature in the world, which Nature herself must envy me. With this model and… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
By the artist's seizing any one object from nature, that object no longer is part of nature. One can go so far… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
“When glance turns To a sky-blue clear day, When the purplr-red sun Sinks low at sirocco, Here nature bestows glory, Joy, sound… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
“You must, in studying Nature, always consider both each single thing and the whole: nothing is inside and nothing is outside, for… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
“There dwells a life in every star; With brother spheres it rolls afar Its self-elected, radiant way. Still throb within the great… — 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
[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
The artist has a twofold relation to nature; he is at once her master and her slave. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Beauty is a manifestation of secret natural laws, which otherwise would have been hidden from us forever. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
All that is noble is in itself of a quiet nature, and appears to sleep until it is aroused and summoned forth… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
The soul of man is like to water; from Heaven it cometh, to Heaven it riseth And then returning to earth, forever… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Noble be man, Helpful and good! For that alone Sets him apart From every other creature On earth. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
The arts are the salt of the earth; as salt relates to food, the arts relate to technology. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
It is in human nature to relax, when not compelled by personal advantage or disadvantage. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Whatever Nature undertakes, she can only accomplish it in a sequence. She never makes a leap. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Could we perfect human nature, we might also expect a perfect state of things. — 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
I believe in God and in nature and in the triumph of good over evil. — 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
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
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
“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
We are pantheists when we study nature, polytheists when we write poetry, monotheists in our morality. — 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
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
All lyrical work must, as a whole, be perfectly intelligible, but in some particulars a little unintelligible. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share
We know accurately only when we know little, with knowledge doubt increases. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share
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
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
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
Just begin and the mind grows heated; continue, and the task will be completed! — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share
I look upon all four Gospels as thoroughly genuine, for there shines forth from them the reflected splendor of a sublimity proceeding from Jesus… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share
Whatever we may say against collections, which present authors in a disjointed form, they nevertheless bring about many excellent results. We are not always… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share
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![“[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/i/8bc/johann-wolfgang-von-goethe-36_all-things_nature-s-crown-is-love-only-through-love_2426346.jpg)
