| JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE |
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| �Taste is only to be educated by contemplation, not of the tolerably good, but of the truly excellent. I therefore show you only the best works; and when you are grounded in these, you will have a standard for the rest, which you will know how to value, without overrating them.�
�The connoisseur of art must be able to appreciate what is simply beautiful, but the common run of people are satisfied with the ornament.� �The happy do not believe in miracles.� �The intelligent man finds almost everything ridiculous, the sensible man almost nothing.� �The sagacious reader who is capable of reading between these lines what does not stand written in them, but is nevertheless implied, will be able to form some conception.� (Autobiography, Book xviii. Truth and Beauty) �There is nothing in which people more betray their character than in what they laugh at.� �To rule is easy, to govern difficult.� �Treat people as if they were what they ought to be and you help them to become what they are capable of being.� �We do not have to visit a madhouse to find disordered minds; our planet is the mental institution of the universe.� �Whatever you do, or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius and power and magic in it.� �When an idea is wanting a word can always be found to take its place.� |
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