Passions are vices or virtues to their highest powers.

Quote by Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

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For the nature of women is closely allied to art

For the nature of women is closely allied to art

Talents are best nurtured in solitude, but character is best formed in the stormy billows...

Talents are best nurtured in solitude, but character is best formed in the stormy billows...

There is no patriotic art and no patriotic science

There is no patriotic art and no patriotic science

Every person above the ordinary has a certain mission that they are called to fulfill.

Every person above the ordinary has a certain mission that they are called to fulfill.

Error is acceptable as long as we are young; but one must not drag it...

Error is acceptable as long as we are young; but one must not drag it...

A creation of importance can only be produced when its author isolates himself, it is...

A creation of importance can only be produced when its author isolates himself, it is...

Nothing hurts a new truth more than an old error

Nothing hurts a new truth more than an old error

He is happiest, be he king or peasant, who finds peace in his home.

He is happiest, be he king or peasant, who finds peace in his home.

Nothing is to be rated higher than the value of the day.

Nothing is to be rated higher than the value of the day.

Everyone believes in his youth that the world really began with him, and that all...

Everyone believes in his youth that the world really began with him, and that all...

Devote each day to the object then in time and every evening will find something...

Devote each day to the object then in time and every evening will find something...

Thinking is more interesting than knowing, but less interesting than looking.

Thinking is more interesting than knowing, but less interesting than looking.

We are shaped and fashioned by what we love

We are shaped and fashioned by what we love

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

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

The man with insight enough to admit his limitations comes nearest to perfection.

The man with insight enough to admit his limitations comes nearest to perfection.

It is in self-imitation that a master first shows himself.

It is in self-imitation that a master first shows himself.

Talent develops in quiet places, character in the full current of human life.

Talent develops in quiet places, character in the full current of human life.

It is easier to perceive error than to find truth, for the former lies on...

It is easier to perceive error than to find truth, for the former lies on...

We demand rigidly defined areas of doubt and uncertainty!

We demand rigidly defined areas of doubt and uncertainty!

An error does not become truth by reason of multiplied propagation, nor does truth become...

An error does not become truth by reason of multiplied propagation, nor does truth become...