True art can only spring from the intimate linking of the serious and the playful. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
True happiness springs from moderation. [Ger., Aus Massigkeit entspringt ein reines Gluck.] — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Our destiny often looks like a fruit-tree in winter. Who would think from its pitiable aspect that those rigid boughs, those rough… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
So then the year is repeating its old story again. We are come once more, thank God! to its most charming chapter.… — 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
Assuredly there is no more lovely worship of God than that for which no image is required, but which springs up in… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
This world could not exist if it were not so simple. The ground has been tilled a thousand years, yet its powers… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
The bed of flowers Loosens amain, The beauteous snowdrops Droop o'er the plain. The crocus opens Its glowing bud, Like emeralds others,… — 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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