Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes About Eyes

• The hardest thing to see is what is in front of your eyes.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Eye, Hardest, Hardest Thing

• If a good person does you wrong, act as though you had not noticed it. If we practice and eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth, soon the wholeworld will be blind and toothless.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Forgiveness, Eye, Practice

• None are so hopelessly enslaved, as those who falsely believe they are free. The truth has been kept from the depth of their minds by masters who rule them with lies. They feed them on falsehoods till wrong looks like right in their eyes.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Lying, Believe, Eye

• Take care of your body with steadfast fidelity. The soul must see through these eyes alone, and if they are dim, the whole world is clouded.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Life, Motivational, Fitness

• What is hardest of all? That which seems most simple: to see with your eyes what is before your eyes.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Eye, Simple, Hardest

• The thought of death leaves me in perfect peace, for I have a firm conviction that our spirit is a being of indestructible nature; it works on from eternity to eternity, it is like the sun, which though it seems to set to our mortal eyes, does not really set, but shines on perpetually.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Spiritual, Eye, Shine On

• Truth is a torch but a tremendous one. That is why we hurry past it, shielding our eyes, indeed, in fear of getting burned.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Truth, Fear, Lying

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1963). “Goethe's world view: presented in his reflections and maxims”

• What is now the foliage moving?
  Air is still, and hush'd the breeze,
  Sultriness, this fullness loving,
  Through the thicket, from the trees.
  Now the eye at once gleams brightly,
  See! the infant band with mirth
  Moves and dances nimbly, lightly,
  As the morning gave it birth,
  Flutt'ring two and two o'er earth.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Morning, Spring, Moving

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, “May”

• Were the eye not of the sun, How could we behold the light? If God's might and ours were not as one, How could His work enchant our sight?

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Eye, Light, Sight

• Quite often, as life goes on, when we feel completely secure as we go on our way, we suddenly notice that we are trapped in error, that we have allowed ourselves to be taken in by individuals, by objects, have dreamt up an affinity with them which immediately vanishes before our waking eye; and yet we cannot tear ourselves away, held fast by some power that seems incomprehensible to us. Sometimes, however, we become fully aware and realize that error as well as truth can move and spur us on to action.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Life, Moving, Taken

• The soul is indestructible and its activity will continue through eternity. It is like the sun, which, to our eyes, seems to set at night; but it has in reality only gone to diffuse its light elsewhere.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Eye, Night, Reality

• Truth is a torch, but a huge one, and so it is only with blinking eyes what we all of us try to get past it, in actual terror of being burnt.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Truth, Eye, Past

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (2013). “Delphi Works of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (Illustrated)”, p.3526, Delphi Classics

• Every decided colour does a certain violence to the eye, and forces the organ to opposition.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Eye, Light, Doe

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (2012). “Theory of Colours”, p.14, Courier Corporation

• The light is there, and colors surround us. However, if there were no light nor colors in our own eye, we wouldn't perceive such things outside of us.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Eye, Light, Color

• Reality surpasses imagination; and we see, breathing, brightening, and moving before our eyes sights dearer to our hearts than any we ever beheld in the land of sleep.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Moving, Heart, Sleep

• The eye doesn't see any shapes, it sees only what is differentiated through light and dark or through colors.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Eye, Dark, Light

• One would give generous alms if one had the eyes to see the beauty of a cupped receiving hand.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Eye, Hands, Giving

• We find from experience that yellow excites a warm and agreeable impression.... The eye is gladdened, the heart expanded and cheered, a glow seems at once to breathe toward us.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Eye, Heart, Yellow

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (2012). “Theory of Colours”, p.169, Courier Corporation

• The hardest thing is to see what's under your very eyes.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Eye, Hardest, Hardest Thing

• Were not the eye made to receive the rays of the sun, it could not behold the sun; if the peculiar power of God lay not in us, how could the godlike charm us?

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Appreciation, Eye, Rays

• Light has called forth one organ to become its like, and thus the eye is formed by the light and for the light so that the inner light may emerge to meet the outer light.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Eye, Light, May

• The most difficult thing is what is thought to be the simplest; to really see the things which are before your eyes.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Eye, Difficult, Simplest

• The summit charms us, the steps to it do not; with the heights before our eyes, we like to linger in the plain. It is only a part of art that can be taught; but the artist needs the whole. He who is only half instructed speaks much and is always wrong; who knows it wholly is content with acting and speaks seldom or late.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Art, Eye, Acting

• Pain and pleasure, good and evil, come to us from unexpected sources. It is not there where we have gathered up our brightest hopes, that the dawn of happiness breaks. It is not there where we have glanced our eye with affright, that we find the deadliest gloom. What should this teach us? To bow to the great and only Source of light, and live humbly and with confiding resignation.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Pain, Eye, Light

• Truth is a torch, but a terrific one; therefore we all try to reach it with closed eyes, lest we should be scorched.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Truth, Eye, Trying

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