More from Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  1. Reason can never be popular. Passions and feelings may become popular, but reason will always remain the sole property of a few eminent ind…
  2. The best genius is that which absorbs and assimilates everything without doing the least violence to its fundamental destiny - that which w…
  3. [Prague is the] prettiest gem in the stone crown of the world...
  4. The deed is everything, the glory naught.
  5. Only when we know little do we know anything; doubt grows with knowledge.
  6. The effects of good music are not just because it's new; on the contrary music strikes us more the more familiar we are with it.
  7. One has only to grow older to become more tolerant. I see no fault that I might not have committed myself.
  8. The first and last thing required of genius is the love of truth.

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