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The thinker makes a great mistake when he asks after cause and effect. They both together make up the indivisible phenomenon.

The thinker makes a great mistake when he asks after cause and effect. They both together make up the indivisible phenomenon.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Art, Philosophy, Mistake
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (2015). “Maxims and Reflections”, p.139, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

How fair doth Nature Appear again! How bright the sunbeams! How smiles the plain! The flow'rs are bursting From ev'ry bough, And thousand voices Each bush yields now. And joy and gladness Fill ev'ry breast! Oh earth!-oh sunlight! Oh rapture blest! Oh love! oh loved one!

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Yield, Voice, Joy
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Edgar Alfred BOWRING (1853). “The Poems of Goethe, Translated in the Original Metres, with a Sketch of Goethe's Life. By E. A. Bowring”, p.79

Our mistakes and failures are always the first to strike us, and outweigh in our imagination what we have accomplished and attained.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Motivation, Mistake, Imagination

For the nature of women is closely allied to art

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Art, Nature
"Faust". Play by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, II. 1, 1808.

Courage and modesty are the most unequivocal of virtues, for they are of a kind that hypocrisy cannot imitate; they too have this quality in common, that they are expressed by the same color.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Courage, Color, Hypocrisy

The greatest step forward would be to see that everything factual is already theory. The blueness of the sky reveals the basic lawof chromatics. Don't look for anything behind the phenomena, they themselves are the doctrine.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Sky, Steps, Doctrine

Why go further and further, Look, happiness is right here. Learn how to grab hold of luck, For luck is always there.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Luck, Looks

The most damaging prejudice consists of banning any kind of investigation of nature.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Prejudice, Kind, Bans

If one mistreats citizens of foreign countries, one infringes upon one's duty toward one's own subjects; for thus one exposes themto the law of retribution.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Country, Law, Citizens

What is the universal? The single case. What is the particular? Millions of cases.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Cases, Particular, Universal

As for what I have done as a poet, I take no pride in whatever. Excellent poets have lived at the same time with me, poets more excellent lived before me, and others will come after me. But that in my country I am the only person who knows the truth in the difficult science of colors-of that, I say, I am not a little proud, and here have a consciousness of superiority to many.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Country, Pride, Color

Taste is only to be educated by contemplation, not of the tolerably good but of the truly excellent.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Taste, Excellent, Contemplation
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Johann Peter Eckermann (2014). “Conversations of Goethe with Johann Peter Eckermann”, p.83, Ravenio Books

Architecture is crystallized music.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Architecture

Faith is hidden household capital.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Household

That which thy fathers have bequeathed to thee, earn it anew if thou wouldst possess it.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Father, Thee, Ifs

Art is a mediator of the unspeakable.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Art, Art Is, Mediators

Well-mannered children could be conceived if the parents were well-mannered.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Children, Parent, Well Mannered

The happiest man is the one who finds happiness at home.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Home, Men, Finding Happiness

No limit, no definition, may restrict the range or depth of the human spirit's passage into its own secrets or the world's.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Secret, Depth, World

In art it's not the thinking that does the job, but making.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Art, Jobs, Thinking

It is working within limits that the craftsman reveals himself.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Limits, Craftsman

When one is polite in German, one lies.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Lying, Polite

I will say with Lorenzo de Medici that those who do not hope for another life are always dead to this one.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Another Life

He who has a task to perform must know how to take sides, or he is quite unworthy of it.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Prejudice, Tasks, Literature
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, John Gage (1980). “Goethe on Art”, p.6, Univ of California Press

Superstition is the poetry of life.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Life, Literature, Superstitions
'Sprüche in Prosa' (1819) 3

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