Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes About Reality

• Few people have the imagination for reality.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Inspiration, Reality, People

• If you've never eaten while crying you don t know what life tastes like.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Life, Reality, Inspire

• Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Love, Life, Marriage

• Toleration ought in reality to be merely a transitory mood. It must lead to recognition. To tolerate is to affront.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Religious, Reality, Tolerance

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1897). “Criticisms, reflections, and maxims of Goethe: Tr., with an introduction”

• The clever reader who is capable or reading between these lines what does not stand written in them but is nevertheless implied will be able to form some conception.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Clever, Reading, Reality

• 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

• The highest problem of any art is to cause by appearance the illusion of a higher reality.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Art, Reality, Causes

• What I possess, seems far away to me, and what is gone becomes reality.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Reality, Gone, Far Away

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Walter Arnold Kaufmann (1963). “Goethe's Faust: part one and sections from part two”, Anchor

• The biggest problem with every art is by the use of appearance to create a loftier reality.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Art, Reality, Use

• 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

• Few men have imagination enough for reality.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Reality, Men, Imagination

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