The true, prescriptive artist strives after artistic truth; the lawless artist, following blind instinct, after an appearance of naturalness. The one leads to the highest peaks of art, the other to its lowest depths.
Tag: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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Treat a man as he appears to be, and you make him worse. But treat a man as if he were what he potentially could be, and you make him what he should be.
If children grew up according to early indications, we should have nothing but geniuses.
Reason can never be popular. Passions and feelings may become popular, but reason will always remain the sole property of a few eminent individuals.
You will always find [hatred] strongest and most violent where there is the lowest degree of culture.
Divide and rule, a sound motto. Unite and lead, a better one.
When you take a man as he is, you make him worse. When you take a man as he can be, you make him better.
So divinely is the world organized that every one of us, in our place and time, is in balance with everything else.