126 Quotes By Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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Error is acceptable as long as we are young but one must not drag it along into old age.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe on age

Age merely shows what children we remain.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe on age

The credit of advancing science has always been due to individuals and never to the age.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe on age

The soul that sees beauty may sometimes walk alone.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe on alone

This is the highest wisdom that I own freedom and life are earned by those alone who conquer them each day anew.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe on alone

What is uttered from the heart alone, Will win the hearts of others to your own.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe on alone

The artist alone sees spirits. But after he has told of their appearing to him, everybody sees them.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe on alone

I call architecture frozen music.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe on architecture

Personality is everything in art and poetry.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe on art

The mediator of the inexpressible is the work of art.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe on art

In art the best is good enough.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe on art

He who possesses art and science has religion he who does not possess them, needs religion.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe on art

The biggest problem with every art is by the use of appearance to create a loftier reality.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe on art

It is after all the greatest art to limit and isolate oneself.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe on art

The soul that sees beauty may sometimes walk alone.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe on beauty

Beauty is a manifestation of secret natural laws, which otherwise would have been hidden from us forever.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe on beauty

Beauty is everywhere a welcome guest.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe on beauty

The best government is that which teaches us to govern ourselves.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe on best

Which government is the best? The one that teaches us to govern ourselves.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe on best

In art the best is good enough.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe on best