The mediator of the inexpressible is the work of art.
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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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About Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe was a German polymath who is widely regarded as the most influential writer in the German language. His work has had a wide-ranging influence on literary, political, Christian views, and philosophical thought in the Western world from the late 18th century to the present. A poet, playwright, novelist, scientist, statesman, theatre-director, and critic, Goethe wrote a wide range of works, including plays, poetry and aesthetic criticism, as well as treatises on botany, …
Read on Wikipedia → Find books by Johann Wolfgang von GoetheThis is the highest wisdom that I own freedom and life are earned by those alone who conquer them each day anew.
Wisdom is found only in truth.
Ignorant men raise questions that wise men answered a thousand years ago.
First and last, what is demanded of genius is love of truth.
Wisdom is found only in truth.
As soon as you trust yourself, you will know how to live.
Just trust yourself, then you will know how to live.
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Trust yourself, then you will know how to live.
We always have time enough, if we will but use it aright.
One always has time enough, if one will apply it well.
Devote each day to the object then in time and every evening will find something done.
Death is a commingling of eternity with time in the death of a good man, eternity is seen looking through time.
Many people take no care of their money till they come nearly to the end of it, and others do just the same with their time.
Only by joy and sorrow does a person know anything about themselves and their destiny. They learn what to do and what to avoid.
Where is the man who has the strength to be true, and to show himself as he is?
One can be instructed in society, one is inspired only in solitude.
No one would talk much in society if they knew how often they misunderstood others.
The credit of advancing science has always been due to individuals and never to the age.
Science arose from poetry... when times change the two can meet again on a higher level as friends.
He who possesses art and science has religion he who does not possess them, needs religion.
Being brilliant is no great feat if you respect nothing.
The Christian religion, though scattered and abroad will in the end gather itself together at the foot of the cross.
He who possesses art and science has religion he who does not possess them, needs religion.
Dream no small dreams for they have no power to move the hearts of men.