Gray are all the theories, But green is the tree of life. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
All theory, my friend, is grey, But green is life's glad golden tree. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
All theory, dear friend, is gray, but the golden tree of life springs ever green. — 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
My worthy friend, gray are all theories And green alone Life's golden tree. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Most pioneers are at the mercy of doubt at the beginning, whether of their worth, of their theories, or of the whole… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
The greatest step forward would be to see that everything factual is already theory. The blueness of the sky reveals the basic… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Theories are usually the over-hasty efforts of an impatient understanding that would gladly be rid of phenomena, and so puts in their… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
The field of experience is the whole universe in all directions. Theory remains shut up within the limits of human faculties. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Everything factual is, in a sense, theory. The blue of the sky exhibits the basic laws of chromatics. There is no sense… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
The sun had, in the meanwhile, sunk behind the Ettersberg. We felt in the wood the chill of the evening, and drove… — 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
