Everything that we call Invention or Discovery in the higher sense of the word is the serious exercise and activity of an… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
“Whatever truths or fables you may find in a thousand books, it is all a tower of Babel unless love holds it… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
For usually people resist as long as they can to dismiss the fool they harbor in their bosom, they resist to confess… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Nothing is more damaging to the truth than an old error. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Whoso is content with pure experience and acts upon it has enough of truth. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Love of truth shows itself in this, that a man knows how to find and value the good in everything. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Wisdom is only found in truth. [Ger., Die Weisheit ist nur in der Wahrheit.] — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
The thinking person has the strange characteristic to like to create a fantasy in the place of the unsolved problem, a fantasy… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
It is as certain as it is strange that truth and error come from one and the same source. Thus it is… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
“The most foolish of all errors is for clever young men to believe that they forfeit their originality in recognising a truth… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
“Error is related to truth as sleeping is to waking. I have observed that when one has been in error, one turns… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
The most foolish of all errors is for clever young men to believe that they forfeit their originality in recognizing a truth… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Truth is a torch, but a terrific one; therefore we all try to reach it with closed eyes, lest we should be… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
The main thing is to have a soul that loves the truth and harbours it where he finds it. And another thing:… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
“I can promise to be sincere, but not to be impartial.” — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Truth must be repeated again and again, because error is constantly being preached round about. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Woe to falsehood! it affords no relief to the breast, like truth; it gives us no comfort, pains him who forges it,… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
The first and last thing required of genius is the love of truth. — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe Copy Share Image
Error is to truth as sleep is to waking. I have observed that one turns, as if refreshed, from error back to… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
A great artist... must be shaken by the naked truths that will not be comforted. This divine discontent, this disequilibrium, this state… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
If it is the greatest truth that you seek, the plants can direct you. — 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
