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One cannot develop taste from what is of average quality but only from the very best.

One cannot develop taste from what is of average quality but only from the very best.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Average, Quality, Taste
"Conversations with Eckermann". Book by Johann Peter Eckermann and Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, February 26, 1824.

If you wish to advance into the infinite, explore the finite in all directions.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Wish, Infinite, Exploration
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1964). “Goethe : [selected Verse]”

Lose the day loitering, 'twill be the same story To-morrow, and the next more dilatory, For indecision brings its own delays, And days are lost lamenting o'er lost days. Are you in earnest? Seize this very minute! What you can do, or think you can, begin it! Only engage, and then the mind grows heated; Begin it, and the work will be completed.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Thinking, Mind, Stories
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1906). “Faust, a Dramatic Mystery”

One never goes further than when they do not know where they are going.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Knows

A person places themselves on a level with the ones they praise.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Self Esteem, Self Respect, Literature

He who possesses art and science has religion; he who does not possess them, needs religion.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Art, Science, Religion

One must ask children and birds how cherries and strawberries taste.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Summer, Nature, Children

The Woman-Soul leadeth us upward and on!

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Women, Soul
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Bayard Taylor (1950). “Faust, a tragedy”

The proper place for liberality is in the realm of the emotions.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Emotional, Feelings, Realms

He who cannot draw on three thousand years is living from hand to mouth.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Hands, Years, History

Whatever Nature undertakes, she can only accomplish it in a sequence. She never makes a leap.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Nature, Accomplish, Leap
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1966). “Conversations and encounters”

The right man is the one who seizes the moment.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Leadership, Courage, Inspiration

Wine rejoices the heart of man and joy is the mother of all virtues.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Mother, Heart, Wine
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1837). “Goetz Von Berlichingen with the Iron Hand: A Drama in Five Acts”, p.20

The mediator of the inexpressible is the work of art.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Art, Work, Works Of Art

What then is your duty? What the day demands.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Demand, Duty, Obligation

Man can find no better retreat from the world than art, and man can find no stronger link with the world than art.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Art, Hipster, Men

Take life too seriously, and what is it worth? If the morning wake us to no new joys, if the evening bring us not the hope of new pleasure, is it worthwhile to dress and undress?

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Morning, Joy, Dresses

Truth must be repeated again and again, because error is constantly being preached round about.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Truth, Errors, Again And Again

Hatred is active displeasure, envy passive. We need not wonder that envy turns to soon to hatred.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Envy, Hatred, Needs
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (2015). “Maxims and Reflections”, p.78, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Every beginning is cheerful.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Cheerful
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Thomas Carlyle, Henry Duff Traill (1824). “Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship and Travels”, p.75

The most original of authors are not so because they advance what is new, but more because they know how to say something, as if it had never been said before.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Writing, Originality, Said

Mysteries are not necessarily miracles.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Miracle, Magic, Literature
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1853). “Goethe's Opinions on the World, Mankind, Literature, Science, and Art”, p.114

Napoleon for the sake of a good name broke in pieces half the world.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Power, Names, Pieces

The greatest evil that can befall man is that he should come to think ill of himself.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Self Worth, Men, Thinking

If everyone sweeps before his own front door, then the street is clean.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Doors, Clean, Streets

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