Profoundness, genius, spontaneity, merit, nobility, ingenuity, voice propriety, feeling, discernment, sensibility, good taste, great tone, rightness, courtliness, vivacity, boldness, style, freshness, harmony, perfection, imagination, purity, correctness. The greatest writer of all times. God's most astonishing creation.
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheWe learn to treasure what is above this earth; we long for revelation, which nowhere burns more purely and more beautifully than in the New Testament.
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheOne cannot develop taste from what is of average quality but only from the very best.
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheThe world cannot do without great men, but great men are very troublesome to the world.
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheSuperstition is rooted in a much deeper and more sensitive layer of the psyche than skepticism.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe