Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes About Perfection

• The man with insight enough to admit his limitations comes nearest to perfection.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Work, Acceptance, Men

• We often feel that we lack something, and seem to see that very quality in someone else, promptly attributing all our own qualities to him too, and a kind of ideal contentment as well. And so the happy mortal is a model of complete perfection--which we have ourselves created.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Perfection, Contentment, Quality

• Perfection is the measure of heaven, and the wish to be perfect the measure of man.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Men, Perfect, Heaven

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (2015). “Maxims and Reflections”, p.126, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

• 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

• It is with art as with love: How can a man of the world,with all his distractions, keep the inwardness which an artist must possess if he hopes to attain perfection? That inwardness which the spectator must share if he is to understand the work as the artist wishes and hopes... Believe me, talents are like virtues; either you must love them for their own sake or renounce them altogether. And they are only recognized and rewarded when we have practised them in secret, like a dangerous mystery."

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Art, Believe, Men

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