The phenomenon is not detached from the observer, but intertwined and involved with him.
JohannWolfgang von Goethe
2025
Tag: Goethe
Where concern is lost, memory fares likewise.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
2025
Mysticism is the heart’s scholastic learning, the dialectic of feeling.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
2025
One ought, every day at least, to hear a little song, read a good poem, see a fine picture, and, if it were possible, to speak a few reasonable words.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
2015
The most damaging prejudice is the idea that any kind of research into nature might be laid under an interdict.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
2021
A last violent cloud of dust whirls round once before a thunderstorm, soon to be stilled for a long time.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
2021
People say, “Artist, study nature!” But it is no small matter to develop what is noble out of what is common, beauty out of what lacks form.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
2020
The fate of the architect is the strangest of all. How often he expends his whole soul, his whole heart and passion, to produce buildings into which he himself may never enter.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
2018
“We like to be out in nature so much because it has no opinion about us.”
Friedrich Nietzsche
Undated
“One day the last portrait of Rembrandt and the last bar of Mozart will have ceased to be – though possibly a coloured canvas and a sheet of notes will remain – because the last eye and the last ear accessible to their message will have gone.”
Oswald Spengler
2019
Parallel Aesthetics 