In art the best is good enough.

Quote by Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

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National literature no longer means very much, the age of world literature is due.

National literature no longer means very much, the age of world literature is due.

Know thyself? If I knew myself I would run away.

Know thyself? If I knew myself I would run away.

Nature alone is illimitably rich, and nature alone forms the great artist.

Nature alone is illimitably rich, and nature alone forms the great artist.

If children grew up according to early indications, we should have nothing but geniuses.

If children grew up according to early indications, we should have nothing but geniuses.

To appreciate the noble is a gain which can never be torn from us.

To appreciate the noble is a gain which can never be torn from us.

Hatred is active, and envy passive dislike; there is but one step from envy to...

Hatred is active, and envy passive dislike; there is but one step from envy to...

The Christian religion, though scattered and abroad will in the end gather itself together at...

The Christian religion, though scattered and abroad will in the end gather itself together at...

Who is the wisest man? He who neither knows or wishes for anything else than...

Who is the wisest man? He who neither knows or wishes for anything else than...

Stupidity is without anxiety.

Stupidity is without anxiety.

Self-love exaggerates our faults as well as our virtues.

Self-love exaggerates our faults as well as our virtues.

The world is so empty if one thinks only of mountains, rivers and cities; but...

The world is so empty if one thinks only of mountains, rivers and cities; but...

The person born with a talent they are meant to use will find their greatest...

The person born with a talent they are meant to use will find their greatest...

One is led astray alike by sympathy and coldness, by praise and by blame

One is led astray alike by sympathy and coldness, by praise and by blame

Everybody wants to be somebody; nobody wants to grow.

Everybody wants to be somebody; nobody wants to grow.

To accept good advice is but to increase one's own ability

To accept good advice is but to increase one's own ability

Behavior is a mirror in which every one displays his own image

Behavior is a mirror in which every one displays his own image

For the nature of women is closely allied to art.

For the nature of women is closely allied to art.

Everything great and intelligent is in the minority

Everything great and intelligent is in the minority

There is no such thing as a little country. The greatness of a people is...

There is no such thing as a little country. The greatness of a people is...

Be not afraid of greatness: some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have...

Be not afraid of greatness: some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have...

Here lies one not long dead; His dark hearing caught our far wheels, and the...

Here lies one not long dead; His dark hearing caught our far wheels, and the...

Write on my gravestone: Infidel, Traitor., infidel to every church that compromises with wrong; traitor...

Write on my gravestone: Infidel, Traitor., infidel to every church that compromises with wrong; traitor...