More from Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  1. The best genius is that which absorbs and assimilates everything without doing the least violence to its fundamental destiny - that which w…
  2. 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.
  3. Talent develops in quiet places, character in the full current of human life.
  4. The first and last thing required of genius is the love of truth.
  5. Reason can never be popular. Passions and feelings may become popular, but reason will always remain the sole property of a few eminent ind…
  6. The intelligent man finds almost everything ridiculous, the sensible man hardly anything.
  7. [Prague is the] prettiest gem in the stone crown of the world...
  8. The decline in literature indicates a decline in the nation. The two keep pace in their downward tendency.

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