Thursday, September 24, 2009

Goethe - can't find a quote I don't like.

Man surrenders so readily to the commonplace, his mind and his senses are so easily blunted, so quickly shut to supreme beauty that we must do all we can to keep the feeling for it alive. No one can do without beauty entirely; it is only because people have never learned to enjoy what is really good that they delight in what is flat and futile as long as it is new. One ought at least to hear a little melody every day, read a fine poem, see a good picture, and, if possible, make a few sensible remarks.

-Johann Wolfgang Goethe (1749-1832)

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

I agree, Kim... Love him. And this is a great one of his