Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes about Contemplation
The one who acts is always without conscience; nobody has a conscience but the contemplative person.
Taste is only to be educated by contemplation, not of the tolerably good but of the truly excellent.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Johann Peter Eckermann (2014). “Conversations of Goethe with Johann Peter Eckermann”, p.83, Ravenio Books
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Johann Peter Eckermann, Frédéric Jacob Soret (1850). “Conversations of Goethe with Eckermann and Soret”, p.137