Background Image

...

True Observers Of Nature, Although They May Think Differently, Will Still Agree That Everything That Is, Everything That Is Observable As A Phenomenon, Can Only Exhibit Itself In One Of Two Ways. It Is Either A Primal Polarity That Is Able To Unify, Or It Is A Primal Unity That Is Able To Divide. The Operation Of Nature Consists Of Splitting The United Or Uniting The Divided; This Is The Eternal Movement Of Systole And Diastole Of The Heartbeat, The Inhalation And Exhalation Of The World In Which We Live, Act, And Exist.

-Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

...

Please Wait....
Translating....

True Observers Of Nature,

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

...

True Observers Of Nature, Although They May Think Differently, Will Still Agree That Everything That Is, Everything That Is Observable As A Phenomenon, Can Only Exhibit Itself In One Of Two Ways. It Is Either A Primal Polarity That Is Able To Unify, Or It Is A Primal Unity That Is Able To Divide. The Operation Of Nature Consists Of Splitting The United Or Uniting The Divided; This Is The Eternal Movement Of Systole And Diastole Of The Heartbeat, The Inhalation And Exhalation Of The World In Which We Live, Act, And Exist.

Views: 8

Topic

More From Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

On Every Mountain Height Is Rest.

Only Law Can Give Us Freedom.

The Hardest Thing Is To See What's Under Your Very Eyes.

The Fine Emotions Whence Our Lives We Mold Lie In The Earthly Tumult Dumb And Cold.

Who Never Ate His Bread In Sorrow, Who Never Spent The Darksome Hours Weeping, And Watching For The Morrow,- He Knows You Not, Ye Heavenly Powers.

I Can Tell You, Honest Friend, What To Believe: Believe Life; It Teaches Better That Book Or Orator.

Reasonable Men Are The Best Dictionaries Of Conversation.

Superstition Is The Poetry Of Life.

You Acquire A Language Most Readily In The Country Where It Is Spoken; You Study Mineralogy Best Among Miners; And So With Everything Else.

Thought Expands, But Paralyzes; Action Animates, But Narrows.

There Are People Who Pay Attention To The Weaknesses Of Their Friends; That Is To No Avail. I Have Always Closely Watched And Profited From The Strengths Of My Adversaries.

The Woman-soul Leadeth Us Upward And On!

The Beginning Of Faith Is The Beginning Of Fruitfulness; But The Beginning Of Unbelief, However Glittering, Is Empty.

Whatever Is The Lot Of Humankind I Want To Taste Within My Deepest Self. I Want To Seize The Highest And The Lowest, To Load Its Woe And Bliss Upon My Breast, And Thus Expand My Single Self Titanically And In The End Go Down With All The Rest.

Nobody, They Say, Is A Hero To His Valet. Of Course; For A Man Must Be A Hero To Understand A Hero. The Valet, I Dare Say, Has Great Respect For Some Person Of His Own Stamp.

If You Lay Duties Upon People And Give Them No Rights, You Must Pay Them Well.

Oral Delivery Aims At Persuasion And Making The Listener Believe They Are Converted. Few Persons Are Capable Of Being Convinced The Majority Allow Themselves To Be Persuaded.

The Soul Is Indestructible And Its Activity Will Continue Through Eternity. It Is Like The Sun, Which, To Our Eyes, Seems To Set At Night; But It Has In Reality Only Gone To Diffuse Its Light Elsewhere.

Excellence Is Rarely Found, More Rarely Valued.

When Two People Are Really Happy About One Another One Can Generally Assume They Are Mistaken.

No One Can Take From Us The Joy Of The First Becoming Aware Of Something, The So-called Discovery. But If We Also Demand The Honor, It Can Be Utterly Spoiled For Us, For We Are Usually Not The First. What Does Discovery Mean, And Who Can Say That He Has Discovered This Or That? After All It's Pure Idiocy To Brag About Priority; For It's Simply Unconscious Conceit, Not To Admit Frankly That One Is A Plagiarist.

Is Not The Core Of Nature In The Heart Of Man?

True Art Can Only Spring From The Intimate Linking Of The Serious And The Playful.

What You Have Inherited From Your Forefathers, It Takes Work To Make It Your Own.

Faith Is Like Private Capital, Stored In One's Own House. It Is Like A Public Savings Bank Or Loan Office, From Which Individuals Receive Assistance In Their Days Of Need; But Here The Creditor Quietly Takes His Interest For Himself.

Wishes Are Premonitions Of Abilities.

No Two Men See The World Exactly Alike, And Different Temperaments Will Apply In Different Ways A Principle That They Both Acknowledge. The Same Man Will, Indeed, Often See And Judge The Same Things Differently On Different Occasions: Early Convictions Must Give Way To More Mature Ones. Nevertheless, May Not The Opinions That A Man Holds And Expresses Withstand All Trials, If He Only Remains True To Himself And Others?

To Be Active Is The Primary Vocation Of Man.

Courage Is The Commitment To Begin Without Any Guarantee Of Success.

This Is What They All Come To Who Exclusively Harp On Experience. They Do Not Stop To Consider That Experience Is Only One Half Of Experience.

And Step By Step, Along The Path Of Life, There's Nothing True But Heaven.

Basic Characteristics Of An Individual Organism: To Divide, To Unite, To Merge Into The Universal, To Abide In The Particular, To Transform Itself, To Define Itself, And As Living Things Tend To Appear Under A Thousand Conditions, To Arise And Vanish, To Solidify And Melt, To Freeze And Flow, To Expand And Contract. Since These Effects Occur Together, Any Or All May Occur At The Same Moment.

Error Is Acceptable As Long As We Are Young; But One Must Not Drag It Along Into Old Age.

When I Err Every One Can See It, But Not When I Lie. [ger., Wenn Ich Irre Kann Es Jeder Bemerken; Wenn Ich Luge, Nicht.]

There Is No Permanence In Doubt; It Incites The Mind To Closer Inquiry And Experiment, From Which, If Rightly Managed, Certainty Proceeds, And In This Alone Can Man Find Thorough Satisfaction.

He Who Moves Not Forward, Goes Backward.

Correction Does Much, But Encouragement Does More.

If It Is The Greatest Truth That You Seek, The Plants Can Direct You.

Chess Is The Touchstone Of Intellect.

As In Rome There Is, Apart From The Romans, A Population Of Statues, So Apart From This Real World There Is A World Of Illusion, Almost More Potent, In Which Most Men Live.

The Main Thing Is To Have A Soul That Loves The Truth And Harbours It Where He Finds It. And Another Thing: Truth Requires Constant Repetition, Because Error Is Being Preached About Us All The Time, And Not Only By Isolated Individuals But By The Masses. In The Newspapers And Encyclopedias, In Schools And Universities, Everywhere Error Rides High And Basks In The Consciousness Of Having The Majority On Its Side.

Mannerism Always Wants To Be Finished And Doesn't Enjoy The Process. Genuine, Truly Great Talent, However, Finds Its Greatest Satisfaction In The Production.

Happy Contractedness Of Youth, Nay, Of Mankind In General, That They Think Neither Of The High Nor The Deep, Of The True Nor The False, But Only Of What Is Suited To Their Own Conceptions.

[nature's] Crown Is Love. Only Through Love Can We Come Near Her. She Puts Gulfs Between All Things, And All Things Strive To Be Interfused. She Isolates Everything, That She May Draw Everything Together. With A Few Draughts From The Cup Of Love She Repays For A Life Full Of Trouble.

The Solution Of Every Problem Is Another Problem

It Is As Certain As It Is Strange That Truth And Error Come From One And The Same Source. Thus It Is That We Are Often Not At Liberty To Do Violence To Error, Because At The Same Time We Do Violence To Truth.

Against Great Advantages In Another, There Are No Means Of Defending Ourselves Except Love.

There Is Nothing Worse Than Aggressive Stupidity.

Every Day I Observe More And More The Folly Of Judging Of Others By Ourselves; And I Have So Much Trouble With Myself, And My Own Heart Is In Such Constant Agitation, That I Am Well Content To Let Others Pursue Their Own Course, If They Only Allow Me The Same Privilege.

Many Young Painters Would Never Have Taken Their Pencils In Hand If They Could Have Felt, Known, And Understood, Early Enough, What Really Produced A Master Like Raphael.

Time Itself Is An Element.

Nothing Is Worse Than Active Ignorance.

As Long As You Don't Practice It, This Dying And Becoming, You Are Only A Dreary Guest On This Dark Earth.

The Flowers Are Full Of Honey, But Only The Bee Finds Out The Sweetness.

The Thinker Makes A Great Mistake When He Asks After Cause And Effect. They Both Together Make Up The Indivisible Phenomenon.

The Whole History Of The Christian Church Is A Mixture Of Errors And Violence.

The History Of Science Is Science Itself; The History Of The Individual, The Individual.

It Is The Strange Fate Of Man, That Even In The Greatest Of Evils The Fear Of The Worst Continues To Haunt Him.

I Will Be Lord Over Myself.

We Are Not All Equal, Nor Can We Be So.

The Dear Good People Don't Know How Long It Takes To Learn To Read. I've Been At It Eighty Years, And Can't Say Yet That I've Reached The Goal.

So Long As You Live And Work, You Will Be Misunderstood; To That You Must Resign Yourself Once And For All. Be Silent!

Writing Is Busy Idleness.

It Is Opposition That Makes Us Productive.

A Distracted Existence Leads Us To No Goal

The Soul That Sees Beauty May Sometimes Walk Alone.

The Master Proves Himselin Recognizing His Limitations.

He Who Knows No Foreign Languages Knows Nothing Of His Own.

When She Sees The Leaves Fall, They Raise No Other Idea In Her Mind Than That Winter Is Approaching.

People Should Talk Less And Draw More. Personally, I Would Like To Renounce Speech Altogether And, Like Organic Nature, Communicate Everything I Have To Say Visually.

If Each One Does Their Duty As An Individual And If Each One Works In Their Own Proper Vocation, It Will Be Right With The Whole.

The Errors Of The Observer Come From The Qualities Of The Human Mind.

We Are Accustomed To See Men Deride What They Do Not Understand, And Snarl At The Good And Beautiful Because It Lies Beyond Their Sympathies

I Do Not Speak Of What I Cannot Praise.

Patriotism Ruins History.

Try Novelties For Salesman's Bait, For Novelty Wins Everyone.

Children, Love One Another, And If That Is Not Possible-at Least Try To Put Up With One Another.

Love One Another

Thou Art In The End What Thou Art. Put On Wigs With Millions Of Curls, Set Thy Foot Upon Ell-high Rocks. Thou Abidest Ever--what Thou Art.

A Man Is Not Little When He Finds It Difficult To Cope With Circumstances, But When Circumstances Overmaster Him.

Money Lost, Something Lost. Honor Lost, Much Lost. Courage Lost, Everything Lost-better You Were Never Born

Lost Everything

He Who Is Wise Puts Aside All Claims Which May Dissipate His Attention, And Confining Himself To One Branch Excels In That.

We Are The Slaves Of Objects Around Us, And Appear Little Or Important According As These Contract Or Give Us Room To Expand.

He Only Earns His Freedom And His Life Who Takes Them Every Day By Storm.

To Live In A Great Idea Means To Treat The Impossible As Though It Were Possible. It Is Just The Same With A Strong Character; And When An Idea And A Character Meet, Things Arise Which Fill The World With Wonder For Thousands Of Years.

Tell Me, How Do You Cope So Calmly With Crazy Youth's Arrogant Way? Indeed, Youth Would Be Insufferable, Had I Myself Not Also Been Insufferable.

Every Great Idea Exerts, On First Appearing, A Tyrannical Influence: Hence, The Advantages It Brings Are Turned All Too Soon Into Disadvantages.

He Who Only Tastes His Error Will Long Dwell With It, Will Take Delight In It As In A Singular Felicity; While He Who Drains It To The Dregs Will, If He Be Not Crazy, Find It To Be What It Is.

None Are More Hopelessly Enslaved Than Those Who Falsely Believe They Are Free.

Everything In Science Depends On What One Calls An Aperçu, On Becoming Aware Of What Is At The Bottom Of The Phenomena. Such Becoming Aware Is Infinitely Fertile.

The Present Moment Is A Powerful Goddess.

Destiny Grants Us Our Wishes, But In Its Own Way, In Order To Give Us Something Beyond Our Wishes.

Whoso Is Content With Pure Experience And Acts Upon It Has Enough Of Truth.

Tell Me With Whom You Associate, And I Will Tell You Who You Are.

The Eternal Feminine Draws Us On High.

Whatever Nature Undertakes, She Can Only Accomplish It In A Sequence. She Never Makes A Leap.

Profoundness, Genius, Spontaneity, Merit, Nobility, Ingenuity, Voice Propriety, Feeling, Discernment, Sensibility, Good Taste, Great Tone, Rightness, Courtliness, Vivacity, Boldness, Style, Freshness, Harmony, Perfection, Imagination, Purity, Correctness. The Greatest Writer Of All Times. God's Most Astonishing Creation.

One Criticizes The English For Carrying Their Teapots Wherever They Go, Even Lugging Them Up Mount Etna. But Doesn't Every Nationhave Its Teapot, In Which, Even When Traveling, It Brews The Dried Bundles Of Herbs Brought From Home?

The Whole Art Of Living Consists In Giving Up Existence In Order To Exist.

Let No One Be Ashamed To Say Yes Today If Yesterday He Said No. Or To Say No Today If Yesterday He Said Yes. For That Is Life. Never To Have Changed-what A Pitiable Thing Of Which To Boast!

Thou Tremblest Before Anticipated Ills, And Still Bemoanest What Thou Never Losest.

Duty Is The Demand Of The Hour.

Moral Epochs Have Their Course As Well As The Seasons. We Can No More Hold Them Fast Than We Can Hold Sun, Moon, And Stars. Our Faults Perpetually Return Upon Us; And Herein Lies The Subtlest Difficulty Of Self-knowledge.

So, Lively Brisk Old Fellow, Don't Let Age Get You Down. White Hairs Or Not, You Can Still Be A Lover.

Over All The Mountain Tops Is Peace. In All Treetops You Perceive Scarcely A Breath. The Little Birds In The Forest Are Silent. Wait Then; Soon, You Too, Will Have Peace.

Nothing Will Change The Fact That I Cannot Produce The Least Thing Without Absolute Solitude.

I Am Certain That I Have Been Here As I Am Now A Thousand Times Before, And I Hope To Return A Thousand Times... Man Is A Dialogue Between Nature And God. On Other Planets This Dialogue Will Doubtless Be Of A Higher And Profounder Character. What Is Lacking Is Self-knowledge. After That The Rest Will Follow.

Theories Are Usually The Over-hasty Efforts Of An Impatient Understanding That Would Gladly Be Rid Of Phenomena, And So Puts In Their Place Pictures, Notions, Nay, Often Mere Words.

Pity On The Person Who Has Become Accustomed To Seeing In Necessity Something Arbitrary, Who Ascribes To The Arbitrary Some Sort Of Reason, And Even Claims That Following That Sort Of Reason Has Religious Value.

Letters Are Among The Most Significant Memorial A Person Can Leave Behind Them.

One Man's Word Is No Man's Word; We Should Quietly Hear Both Sides.

Wine Rejoices The Heart Of Man And Joy Is The Mother Of All Virtues.

The Decline Of Literature Indicates The Decline Of A Nation.

Ambition And Love Are The Wings Of Great Actions.

If Only These Treasures Were Not So Fragile As They Are Precious And Beautiful.

The Real Scholar Learns How To Evolve The Unknown From The Known, And Draws Near The Master.

The Realization Of The Self Is Only Possible If One Is Productive, If One Can Give Birth To One's Own Potentialities.

Nature Is So Perfect That The Trinity Couldn't Have Fashioned Her Any More Perfect. She Is An Organ On Which Our Lord Plays And The Devil Works The Bellows.

These Auspicious Aspects, Which The Astrologers Subsequently Interpreted For Me, May Have Been The Causes Of My Preservation.

Energy Will Do Anything That Can Be Done In The World; And No Talents, No Circumstances, No Opportunities Will Make A Two-legged Animal A Man Without It.

If You Don't Know Foreign Languages, You Don't Know Anything About Your Own.

Foreign Language

People Have A Peculiar Pleasure In Making Converts, That Is, In Causing Others To Enjoy What They Enjoy, Thus Finding Their Own Likeness Represented And Reflected Back To Them.

How Shall We Plan, That All Be Fresh And New-- Important Matter Yet Attractive Too? [ger., Wie Machen Wir's, Dass Alles Frisch Und Neu Und Mit Bedeutung Auch Gefallig Sei?]

Some Of Our Weaknesses Are Born In Us, Others Are The Result Of Education; It Is A Question Which Of The Two Gives Us Most Trouble.

Publishers Are All Cohorts Of The Devil; There Must Be A Special Hell For Them Somewhere.

If I Love You, What Business Is It Of Yours?

Funny Relationship

Taste Is Only To Be Educated By Contemplation, Not Of The Tolerably Good But Of The Truly Excellent.

All Things Are Only Transitory.

Science Has Been Seriously Retarded By The Study Of What Is Not Worth Knowing And Of What Is Not Knowable.

Ill-humor Is Nothing More Than An Inward Feeling Of Our Own Want Of Merit, A Dissatisfaction With Ourselves Which Is Always United With An Envy That Foolish Vanity Excites.

Why Go Further And Further, Look, Happiness Is Right Here. Learn How To Grab Hold Of Luck, For Luck Is Always There.

There Is Nothing In Life So Irrational, That Good Sense And Chance May Not Set It To Rights; Nothing So Rational, That Folly And Chance May Not Utterly Confound It.

Character Is Constructed Amidst The Tempests Of The World

If Youth Is A Fault, It Is One That One Gets Rid Of Soon Enough.

Nothing Shows A Man's Character More Than What He Laughs At.

No Wonder We Are All More Or Less Pleased With Mediocrity, Since It Leaves Us At Rest, And Gives The Same Comfortable Feeling As When One Associates With His Equals.

People Will Allow Their Faults To Be Shown Them; They Will Let Themselves Be Punished For Them; They Will Patiently Endure Many Things Because Of Them; They Only Become Impatient When They Have To Lay Them Aside.

When Married One Has To Get Into An Argument Once In A While Since In This Way One Learns About The Other.

Yes, My Love, Who Soever Lives, Loses, . . . But He Also Wins. [ger., Ja, Meine Liebe, Wer Lebt, Verliebt . . . Aber Er Gewinnt Auch.]

To Have More, You Must First Be More.

Even The Lowliest, Provided He Is Whole, Can Be Happy, And In His Own . Way, Perfect.

He Loves Not Who Does Not See The Faults Of The Beloved As Virtues.

The Most Fortunate Of Men, Be He A King Or Commoner, Is He Whose Welfare Is Assured In His Own Home.

Taste Is Only To Be Educated By Contemplation, Not Of The Tolerably Good But Of The Truly Excellent. I Therefore Show You Only The Best Works; And When You Are Grounded In These, You Will Have A Standard For The Rest, Which You Will Know How To Value, Without Overrating Them.

Great Possessions And Great Want Of Them Are Both Strong Temptations.

The Best Fortune That Can Fall To A Man Is That Which Corrects His Defects And Makes Up For His Failings.

To Accept Good Advice Is But To Increase One's Own Ability.

Riches Amassed In Haste Will Diminish; But Those Collected By Hand And Little By Little Will Multiply.

Know'st Thou The Land Where The Lemon-trees Bloom, Where The Gold Orange Glows In The Deep Thicket's Gloom, Where A Wind Ever Soft From The Blue Heaven Blows, And The Groves Are Of Laurel And Myrtle And Rose!

One That Does Not Think To Highly Of Himself Is More Than He Thinks.

In Praising Or Loving A Child, We Love And Praise Not That Which Is, But That Which We Hope For.

If Children Grew Up According To Early Indications, We Should Have Nothing But Geniuses.

In Happy Ignorance, I Sighed For A World I Did Not Know, Where I Hoped To Find Every Pleasure And Enjoyment Which My Heart Could Desire; And Now, On My Return From That Wide World... How Many Disappointed Hopes And Unsuccessful Plans Have I Brought Back!

To Think Is Easy. To Act Is Hard. But The Hardest Thing In The World Is To Act In Accordance With Your Thinking.

Funny Inspirational

Inspirational Life

For The Butterfly, Mating And Propagation Involve The Sacrifice Of Life, For The Human Being, The Sacrifice Of Beauty.

Once More I Am A Wanderer, A Pilgrim, Through The World. But What Else Are You?

Sometimes Our Fate Resembles A Fruit Tree In Winter. Who Would Think That Those Branches Would Turn Green Again And Blossom, But We Hope It, We Know It.

Objects In Pictures Should So Be Arranged As By Their Very Position To Tell Their Own Story.

The World Is Full Of Contradiction.

To Live Within Limits. To Want One Thing. Or A Few Things Very Much And Love Them Dearly. Cling To Them, Survey Them From Every Angle. Become One With Them - That Is What Makes The Poet, The Artist, The Human Being.

A Man's Shortcomings Are Taken From His Epoch; His Virtues And Greatness Belong To Himself.

If We Meet Someone Who Owes Us A Debt Of Gratitude, We Remember The Fact At Once. How Often We Can Meet Someone To Whom We Owe A Debt Of Gratitude Without Thinking About It At All!

Some Books Seem To Have Been Written, Not To Teach Us Anything, But To Let Us Know That The Author Has Known Something.

Do Not, I Beg You, Look For Anything Behind Phenomena. They Are Themselves Their Own Lesson.

What Makes Poetry? A Full Heart, Brimful Of One Noble Passion.

We Can Stand Only A Certain Amount Of Unhappiness; Anything Beyond That Annihilates Us Or Passes Us By, Leaving Us Apathethetic.

It Is Natural To Man To Regard Himself As The Final Cause Of Creation.

Is It Life, I Ask, Is It Even Prudence, To Bore Thyself And Bore The Students?

The Artist May Be Well Advised To Keep His Work To Himself Till It Is Completed, Because No One Can Readily Help Him Or Advise Him With It... But The Scientist Is Wiser Not To Withhold A Single Finding Or A Single Conjecture From Publicity.

Just As, Out Of Habit, One Consults A Run-down Clock As Though It Were Still Going, So Too One May Look At The Face Of A Beautiful Woman As Though He Still Loved Her.

Most Man Only Care For Science So Far As They Get A Living By It, And That They Worship Even Error When It Affords Them A Subsistence.

Every Man Bears Something Within Him That, If It Were Publicly Announced, Would Excite Feelings Of Aversion.

A Man Who Is Ignorant Of Foreign Languages Is Also Ignorant Of His Own Language.

By The Artist's Seizing Any One Object From Nature, That Object No Longer Is Part Of Nature. One Can Go So Far As To Say That Theartist Creates The Object In That Very Moment By Emphasizing Its Significant, Characteristic, And Interesting Aspects Or, Rather, By Adding The Higher Values.

It Doesn't Behoove Elderly Persons To Follow Fashion In Their Thinking Nor In The Way They Dress.

I Have So Much In Me, And The Feeling For Her Absorbs It All; I Have So Much, And Without Her It All Comes To Nothing.

Unrequited Love

Seize This Very Minute. What You Can Do Or Dream You Can Do, Begin It. Begin It And The Work Will Be Completed

Great Passions Are Incurable Diseases.

Incurable Disease

Treat People As If They Were What They Ought To Be And You Help Them To Become What They Are Capable Of Being.

If Everyone Sweeps Before His Own Front Door, Then The Street Is Clean.

The Art Of Governing Is A Great Metier, Requiring The Whole Man, And It Is Therefore Not Well For A Ruler To Have Too Strong Tendencies For Other Affairs.

All Truths Are Old, And All That We Have To Do Is Recognize And Utter Them Anew.

To Tremble Before Anticipated Evils Is To Bemoan What Thou Hast Never Lost.

Art Is A Severe Business; Most Serious When Employed In Grand And Sacred Objects. The Artist Stands Higher Than Art, Higher Than The Object. He Uses Art For His Purposes, And Deals With The Object After His Own Fashion.

True Happiness Springs From Moderation.

But The Valid Issue Is The Extent To Which Man Knows How To Form And Master The Material At His Command.

Rest Not. Life Is Sweeping By; Go And Dare Before You Die. Something Mighty And Sublime, Leave Behind To Conquer Time.

Before You Can Do Something, You Must First Be Something.

The Trouble Is Small, The Fun Is Great. [ger., Die Muh'ist Klein, Der Spass Ist Gross.]

Continue To Make The Demands Of The Day Your Immediate Concern, And Take Occasion To Test The Purity Of Your Hearts And The Steadfastness Of Your Spirits. When You Then Take A Deep Breath And Rise Above The Cares Of This World And In An Hour Of Leisure, You Will Surely Win The Proper Frame Of Mind To Face Devoutly What Is Above Us, With Reverence, Seeing In All Events The Manifestation Of A Higher Guidance.

Treat A Person As They Are, They Will Remain So. Treat A Person The Way That Person Can Be And Is Capable Of Being And That Person Will Become As He Or She Can Be And Should Be.

Those Only Obtain Love, For The Most Part, Who Seek It Not.

What Am I Then...? Everything That I Have Seen, Heard, And Observed I Have Collected And Exploited. My Works Have Been Nourished By Countless Different Individuals, By Innocent And Wise Ones, People Of Intelligence And Dunces. Childhood, Maturity And Old Age All Have Brought Me Their Thoughts....their Perspectives On Life. I Have Often Reaped What Others Have Sowed. My Work Is The Work Of A Collective Being That Bears The Name Goethe.

If A Poet Would Work Politically, He Must Give Himself Up To A Party; And So Soon As He Does That, He Is Lost As A Poet.

Men Are So Inclined To Content Themselves With What Is Commonest; The Spirit And The Senses So Easily Grow Dead To The Impressions Of The Beautiful And Perfect, That Every One Should Study, By All Methods, To Nourish In His Mind The Faculty Of Feeling These Things. ...for This Reason, One Ought Every Day At Least, To Hear A Little Song, Read A Good Poem, See A Fine Picture, And, If It Were Possible, To Speak A Few Reasonable Words.

Shakespeare Is A Great Psychologist, And Whatever Can Be Known Of The Heart Of Man May Be Found In His Plays.

Man Is Not Born To Solve The Problem Of The Universe, But To Find Out What He Has To Do; And To Restrain Himself Within The Limits Of His Comprehension.

The Modern Age Has A False Sense Of Superiority, Because Of The Great Mass Of Data At Its Disposal. But The Valid Criterion Of Distinction Is Rather The Extent To Which Man Knows How To Form And Master The Material At His Command.

The Rose Is Wont With Pride To Swell, And Ever Seeks To Rise.

The New Vulcanism Is Really A Daring Attempt To Connect The Present, Incomprehensible World To A Past, Unknown One.

The Mediator Of The Inexpressible Is The Work Of Art.

Trending Author

Tamara Ecclestone

Francoise Sagan

Category