More from Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  1. We can't form our children on our own concepts; we must take them and love them as God gives them to us.
  2. One of the most striking signs of the decay of art is the intermixing of different genres.
  3. Untersuchen was ist, und nicht was behagt
  4. The true, prescriptive artist strives after artistic truth; the lawless artist, following blind instinct, after an appearance of naturalnes…
  5. A talent is formed in stillness, a character in the world's torrent.
  6. In limitations he first shows himself the master, And the law can only bring us freedom.
  7. A noble person attracts noble people, and knows how to hold on to them.
  8. One never goes so far as when one doesn't know where one is going.

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