Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

One ought, every day at least, to hear a little song, read a good poem, see a fine picture, and, if it were possible, to speak a few reasonable words. ↗

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

#good-life #music #poetry #self-improvement #art

Nothing can be compared to the new life that the discovery of another country provides for a thoughtful person. Although I am still the same I believe to have changed to the bones. ↗

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

#discoveries #experience #foreign-countries #life #life-changing

All theory is gray, my friend. But forever green is the tree of life. ↗

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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The soul that sees beauty may sometimes walk alone. ↗

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

#alone #may #sees #sometimes #soul

Talent develops in tranquility, character in the full current of human life. ↗

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

#talent #life

It is delightful to transport one's self into the spirit of the past, to see how a wise man has thought before us ↗

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

#inspirational

If the whole world I once could see On free soil stand, with the people free Then to the moment might I say, Linger awhile. . .so fair thou art. ↗

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

#moments #passage-of-time #time #world #art

Whatever you cannot understand, you cannot possess. ↗

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

#possess #understand #whatever #you

That is the true season of love, when we believe that we alone can love, that no one could ever have loved so before us, and that no one will love in the same way as us. ↗

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

#love

I call architecture frozen music. ↗

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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