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Johann Peter Eckermann Quotes

Invention requires an excited mind; execution, a calm one.

Invention requires an excited mind; execution, a calm one.

Johann Peter Eckermann
Mind, Execution, Calm

A man of talent is not born to be left to himself, but to devote himself to art and good masters who will make something of him.

Johann Peter Eckermann
Art, Men, Talent
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Johann Peter Eckermann (2014). “Conversations of Goethe with Johann Peter Eckermann”, p.181, Ravenio Books

Wearing spectacles makes men conceited, because spectacles raise them to a degree of sensual perfection which is far above the power of their own nature.

Johann Peter Eckermann
Conceited, Men, Perfection
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Johann Peter Eckermann, Frédéric Jacob Soret (1850). “Conversations of Goethe with Eckermann and Soret”, p.277

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