Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes About Beauty
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Beauty is at once the ultimate principle and the highest aim of art.
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The soul that sees beauty may sometimes walk alone.
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Beautiful is greater than Good, for it includes the Good.
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Beauty is a primeval phenomenon, which itself never makes its appearance, but the reflection of which is visible in a thousand different utterances of the creative mind, and is as various as nature herself.
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Beauty is everywhere a welcome guest.
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Beauty vanishes; virtue is lasting.
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Beauty is a manifestation of secret natural laws, which otherwise would have been hidden from us forever.
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The ideal of beauty is simplicity and tranquility.
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A man should hear a little music, read a little poetry, and see a fine picture every day of his life, in order that worldly cares may not obliterate the sense of the beautiful which God has implanted in the human soul.
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Beauty can never really understand itself.
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The useful may be trusted to further itself, for many produce it and no one can do without it; but the beautiful must be specially encouraged, for few can present it, while yet all have need of it.
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It is impossible that beauty should ever distinctly appreciate itself.
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