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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Quote of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe - Nothing is more fearful than imagination...


Biography - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe:

German writer and statesman.
Born: 1749 - Died: 1832
Period:
19th century
18th century
Place of birth: Germany
Germany

Nothing is more fearful than imagination without taste.



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Quotes for: imagination


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Quotes for: imagination


Imagination is more important than knowledge.





Man, too, has wings, he has imagination.





Why does the eye see a thing more clearly in dreams than the imagination when awake?





Without this playing with fantasy no creative work has ever yet come to birth. The debt we owe to the play of the imagination is incalculable.





All the works of man have their origin in creative fantasy. What right have we then to depreciate imagination.





You will obtain a vision of matter that is perhaps fatiguing for your imagination, but pure and stripped of what the requirements of life make you add to it in external perception.











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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe also said...


In all things it is better to hope than to despair.





As soon as you trust yourself, you will know how to live.





To do good needs no consideration.





We know accurately only when we know little; with knowledge, doubt increases.





People grow old indeed, but who grows wise?





The aim of living is Life itself.












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