All JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE Quotes about “Culture”

“Nothing is worse than active ignorance.”
“A teacher who can arouse a feeling for one single good action, for one single good poem, accomplishes more than he who fills our memory with rows and rows of natural objects, classified with name and form.”
“Hatred is something peculiar. You will always find it strongest and most violent where there is the lowest degree of culture.”
“Piety is not a goal but a means to attain through the purest peace of mind the highest culture.”
“Culture which smooth the whole world licks, Also unto the devil sticks.”
“Piety is not an end, but a means: a means of attaining the highest culture by the purest tranquility of soul. Hence it may be observed that those who set up piety as an end and object are mostly hypocrites.”
“Even though the world as a whole progresses, youth must always start again from the beginning, and as individuals go through the epochs of the world's culture.”
“Men are so inclined to content themselves with what is commonest; the spirit and the senses so easily grow dead to the impressions of the beautiful and perfect, that every one should study, by all methods, to nourish in his mind the faculty of feeling these things. ...For this reason, one ought every day at least, to hear a little song, read a good poem, see a fine picture, and, if it were possible, to speak a few reasonable words.”
“If the world does improve on the whole, yet youth must always begin anew, and go through the stages of culture from the beginning.”

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