Everything perfect in its kind has to transcend its own kind, it must become something different and incomparable. In some notes the… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
A mathematician is only perfect insofar as he is a perfect man, sensitive to the beauty of truth. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
As to the value of conversions, God alone can judge. God alone can know how wide are the steps which the soul… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Men are so inclined to content themselves with what is commonest; the spirit and the senses so easily grow dead to the… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
The style of writing required in the great world is distinguished by a free and daring grace, a careless security, a fine… — 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
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
Only the heart without a stain knows perfect ease. [Ger., Ganz unbefleckt geniesst sich nur das Herz.] — 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
The nude is the perfect expression of freedom. Freedom to be. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Let no one be like another, yet everyone like the highest. How is this done? Be each one perfect in himself. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Perfection is the measure of heaven, and the wish to be perfect the measure of man. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Never let a day pass without looking at some perfect work of art, hearing some great piece of music and reading, in… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
An angel! Nonsense! Everybody so describes his mistress; and yet I find it impossible to tell you how perfect she is, or… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Even the lowliest, provided he is whole, can be happy, and in his own . way, perfect. — 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
