More from Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  1. 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.
  2. The intelligent man finds almost everything ridiculous, the sensible man hardly anything.
  3. The deed is everything, the glory naught.
  4. The decline in literature indicates a decline in the nation. The two keep pace in their downward tendency.
  5. The best genius is that which absorbs and assimilates everything without doing the least violence to its fundamental destiny - that which w…
  6. The man is born with a talent which he has meant to use finds his greatest happiness in using it.
  7. Talent develops in quiet places, character in the full current of human life.
  8. The phrases that men hear or repeat continually, end by becoming convictions and ossify the organs of intelligence.

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