Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes About Imagination

• I love those who yearn for the impossible.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Love, Philosophy, Life Is Good

  "Faust, Part 2". Book by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe. Act II, "Classical Walpurgis Night", 1832.

• Few people have the imagination for reality.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Inspiration, Reality, People

• Everything is both simpler than we can imagine and more entangled than we can conceive.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Imagination, Simple Life, Imagine

• One can be instructed in society, one is inspired only in solitude.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Loneliness, Inspiration, Being Alone

• No doubt you are right... there would be far less suffering amongst mankind if men... did not employ their imaginations so assiduously in recalling the memory of past sorrow, instead of bearing their present lot with equanimity.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Memories, Past, Men

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (2006). “The Sorrows of Young Werther”, p.1, Mondial

• The Primal Plant is going be the strangest creature in the world, which Nature herself must envy me. With this model and the key to it, it will be possible to go on for ever inventing plants and know that their existence is logical; that is to say, if they do not actually exist, they could, for they are not the shadowy phantoms of a vain imagination, but possess an inner necessity and truth. The same law will be applicable to all other living organisms.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Science, Law, Keys

• Profoundness, genius, spontaneity, merit, nobility, ingenuity, voice propriety, feeling, discernment, sensibility, good taste, great tone, rightness, courtliness, vivacity, boldness, style, freshness, harmony, perfection, imagination, purity, correctness. The greatest writer of all times. God's most astonishing creation.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Religious, Voice, Imagination

• Our mistakes and failures are always the first to strike us, and outweigh in our imagination what we have accomplished and attained.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Motivation, Mistake, Imagination

• I examine my own being, and find there a world, but a world rather of imagination and dim desires, than of distinctness and living power. Then everything swims before my senses, and I smile and dream while pursuing my way through the world.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Dream, Imagination, Swim

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (2016). “THE SORROWS OF YOUNG WERTHER (Literary Classics Series): Historical Romance Novel”, p.7, e-artnow

• Nothing is more fearful than imagination without taste.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Imagination, Literature, Taste

• 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

• There is nothing more fearful than imagination without taste.
  [Ger., Es ist nichts furchterlicher als Einbildungskraft ohne Geschmack.]

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Imagination, Als, Taste

• Few men have imagination enough for reality.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Reality, Men, Imagination

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