Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes About Consciousness

• The main thing is to have a soul that loves the truth and harbours it where he finds it. And another thing: truth requires constant repetition, because error is being preached about us all the time, and not only by isolated individuals but by the masses. In the newspapers and encyclopedias, in schools and universities, everywhere error rides high and basks in the consciousness of having the majority on its side.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Education, Truth, School

• Man cannot persist long in a conscious state, he must throw himself back into the unconscious, for his root lives there.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Men, Roots, Long

• As for what I have done as a poet, I take no pride in whatever. Excellent poets have lived at the same time with me, poets more excellent lived before me, and others will come after me. But that in my country I am the only person who knows the truth in the difficult science of colors-of that, I say, I am not a little proud, and here have a consciousness of superiority to many.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Country, Pride, Color

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