One is led astray alike by sympathy and coldness, by praise and by blame — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
“[Alexander von] Humboldt showers us with true treasures.” — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
A person places themselves on a level with the ones they praise. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
In praising or loving a child, we love and praise not that which is, but that which we hope for. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
The true poet is called to take in the splendor of the world and for that reason will always be inclined to… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Few rash of any modern nation have a proper sense of an aesthetical whole; they praise and blame by parts; they are… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Translators can be considered as busy matchmakers who praise as extremely desirable a half-veiled beauty. They arouse an irresistible yearning for the… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
There speaks the man of truly noble ways, Who will not listen to the words of praise. In modesty averse, and with… — 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
You can’t, if you can’t feel it, if it never Rises from the soul, and sways The heart of every single hearer,… — 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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