Everything in science depends on what one calls an aperçu, on becoming aware of what is at the bottom of the phenomena.… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
As soon as any one belongs to a narrow creed in science, every unprejudiced and true perception is gone. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Man is not born to solve the problem of the universe, but to find out what he has to do; and to… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
“I know what science this has come to be. All rights and laws are still transmitted Like an eternal sickness of the… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Hypotheses are the scaffolds which are erected in front of a building and removedd when the building is completed. They are indispensable… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
I could never have known so well how paltry men are, and how little they care for really high aims, if I… — 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
