#lit

Personality is everything in art and poetry. ↗

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

#everything #personality #poetry

The biggest problem with every art is by the use of appearance to create a loftier reality. ↗

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

#art #biggest #biggest problem #create #every

The decline of literature indicates the decline of a nation. ↗

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

#indicates #literature #nation

We know accurately only when we know little, with knowledge doubt increases. ↗

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

#doubt #increases #know #knowledge #little

Unlike grown ups, children have little need to deceive themselves. ↗

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

#deceive #grown #grown ups #little #need

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

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

#best #cannot #develop #only #quality

The little man is still a man. ↗

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

#little man #man #still

It is not the language of painters but the language of nature which one should listen to, the feeling for the things themselves, for reality is more important than the feeling for pictures. ↗

— Vincent Van Gogh

#important #language #listen #more #nature

I knew that by getting behind the wheel of the car and having had something to drink, the responsibility laid on my shoulders. ↗

— Tracey Gold

#car #drink #getting #had #having

If you spend any time in Washington you'll find nerds. What happens is most of them sublimate their fixations with comics, or baseball cards, or 1960s British comedies to policy minutiae and political arcana. But, like Christians in ancient Rome, you can still spot them if you know the signals. ↗

— Jonah Goldberg

#ancient rome #any #baseball #british #cards