Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes About Perception

• Distance... is like futurity. A dim vastness is spread before our souls; the perceptions of our mind are as obscure as those of our vision... But alas! when we have attained our object, when the distant 'there' becomes the present 'here,' all is changed; we are as poor and circumscribed as ever, and our souls still languish for unattainable happiness.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Distance, Soul, Mind

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (2017). “The Sorrows of Young Werther (English German Edition, illustrated): Die Leiden des jungen Werther (Englisch Deutsch Ausgabe illustriert)”, p.51, Clap Publishing, LLC.

• No two men see the world exactly alike, and different temperaments will apply in different ways a principle that they both acknowledge.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Men, Two, Perception

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, John Gage (1980). “Goethe on Art”, p.5, Univ of California Press

• 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

• As soon as any one belongs to a narrow creed in science, every unprejudiced and true perception is gone.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Science, Perception, Gone

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Johann Peter Eckermann (2014). “Conversations of Goethe with Johann Peter Eckermann”, p.104, Ravenio Books

• There is nothing outside of us that is not at the same time in us, and as the external world has its colors the eye, too, has colors.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Eye, Color, Perception

• 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

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