The hardest thing to see is what is in front of your eyes. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
What is hardest of all? That which seems most simple: to see with your eyes what is before your eyes. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Reality surpasses imagination; and we see, breathing, brightening, and moving before our eyes sights dearer to our hearts than any we ever… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Truth is a torch but a tremendous one. That is why we hurry past it, shielding our eyes, indeed, in fear of… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
The most difficult thing is what is thought to be the simplest; to really see the things which are before your eyes. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
The soul is indestructible and its activity will continue through eternity. It is like the sun, which, to our eyes, seems to… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
“A vast dawning entirety lies before the soul, our senses lose themselves in it as do our eyes and oh! we long to make the oblation of all our being and to be filled utterly with the bliss of a single large and glorious feeling.—And oh! when we hurry after it, when There becomes Here, all is as it was… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share
“I am fully convinced that the soul is indestructible, and that its activity will continue through eternity. It is like the sun,… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
The summit charms us, the steps to it do not; with the heights before our eyes, we like to linger in the… — 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