Quote #10
Untersuchen was ist, und nicht was behagt
More from Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
- A talent is formed in stillness, a character in the world's torrent.
- We can't form our children on our own concepts; we must take them and love them as God gives them to us.
- A noble person attracts noble people, and knows how to hold on to them.
- The spirits that I summoned up I now can't rid myself of.
- In der Kunst ist das Beste gut genug.
- One of the most striking signs of the decay of art is the intermixing of different genres.
- Noble be man, Helpful and good! For that alone Sets hims apart From every other creature On earth.
- The true, prescriptive artist strives after artistic truth; the lawless artist, following blind instinct, after an appearance of naturalnes…