Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Perfect Quotations

Only the heart without a stain knows perfect ease. [Ger., Ganz unbefleckt geniesst sich nur das Herz.]

The style of writing required in the great world is distinguished by a free and daring grace, a careless security, a fine and sharp polish, a delicate and perfect taste; while that fitted for the people is characterized by a vigorous natural fulness, a profound depth of feeling, and an engaging naivete.

Even the lowliest, provided he is whole, can be happy, and in his own . way, perfect.

The nude is the perfect expression of freedom. Freedom to be.

An angel! Nonsense! Everybody so describes his mistress; and yet I find it impossible to tell you how perfect she is, or why she is so perfect: suffice it to say she has captivated all my senses.

Let no one be like another, yet everyone like the highest. How is this done? Be each one perfect in himself.

A mathematician is only perfect insofar as he is a perfect man, sensitive to the beauty of truth.

Could we perfect human nature, we might also expect a perfect state of things.

Everything perfect in its kind has to transcend its own kind, it must become something different and incomparable. In some notes the nightingale is still a bird; then it rises above its class and seems to suggest to every winged creature what singing is truly like.

As to the value of conversions, God alone can judge. God alone can know how wide are the steps which the soul has to take before it can approach to a community with Him, to the dwelling of the perfect, or to the intercourse and friendship of higher natures.