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One never goes further than when they do not know where they are going.
By Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
One cannot develop taste from what is of average quality but only from the very best.
By Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Objects in pictures should so be arranged as by their very position to tell their own story.
By Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free.
By Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
No one would talk much in society if they knew how often they misunderstood others.
By Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Nature alone is illimitably rich, and Nature alone forms the great artist.
By Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Nature is beneficent. I praise her and all her works. She is silent and wise. She is cunning, but for good ends. She has brought me here and will also lead me away. She may scold me, but she will not hate her work. I trust her.
By Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Music, in the best sense, does not require novelty; no, the older it is, and the more we are accustomed to it, the greater its effect
By Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Music is either sacred or secular. The sacred agrees with its dignity, and here has its greatest effect on life, an effect that remains the same through all ages and epochs. Secular music should be cheerful throughout.
By Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Men show their character in nothing more clearly than by what they think laughable.
By Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Men show their character in nothing more clearly than what they think laughable.
By Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Men show their characters in nothing more clearly than in what they think laughable
By Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Men show their characters in nothing more clearly than in what they think laughable.
By Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Many people take no care of their money till they come nearly to the end of it, and others do just the same with their time.
By Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Mathematicians are like Frenchmen: whatever you say to them they translate into their own language and forthwith it is something entirely different
By Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Mathematicians are like Frenchmen: whatever you say to them they translate into their own language, and forthwith it is something entirely different.
By Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Man is not born to solve the problem of the universe, but to find out what he has to do; and to restrain himself within the limits of his comprehension.
By Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Magic is believing in yourself, if you can do that, you can make anything happen.
By Johann Wolfgang von Goethe