All JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE Quotes about “Eyes”

“The hardest thing to see is what is in front of your eyes.”
“If a good person does you wrong, act as though you had not noticed it. If we practice and eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth, soon the wholeworld will be blind and toothless.”
“Take care of your body with steadfast fidelity. The soul must see through these eyes alone, and if they are dim, the whole world is clouded.”
“What is hardest of all? That which seems most simple: to see with your eyes what is before your eyes.”
“None are so hopelessly enslaved, as those who falsely believe they are free. The truth has been kept from the depth of their minds by masters who rule them with lies. They feed them on falsehoods till wrong looks like right in their eyes.”
“Were the eye not of the sun, How could we behold the light? If God's might and ours were not as one, How could His work enchant our sight?”
“Truth is a torch but a tremendous one. That is why we hurry past it, shielding our eyes, indeed, in fear of getting burned.”
“Truth is a torch, but a huge one, and so it is only with blinking eyes what we all of us try to get past it, in actual terror of being burnt.”
“Every decided colour does a certain violence to the eye, and forces the organ to opposition.”
“Light has called forth one organ to become its like, and thus the eye is formed by the light and for the light so that the inner light may emerge to meet the outer light.”
“The most difficult thing is what is thought to be the simplest; to really see the things which are before your eyes.”
“Truth is a torch, but a terrific one; therefore we all try to reach it with closed eyes, lest we should be scorched.”
“There is nothing outside of us that is not at the same time in us, and as the external world has its colors the eye, too, has colors.”
“The light is there, and colors surround us. However, if there were no light nor colors in our own eye, we wouldn't perceive such things outside of us.”
“Reality surpasses imagination; and we see, breathing, brightening, and moving before our eyes sights dearer to our hearts than any we ever beheld in the land of sleep.”
“The eye doesn't see any shapes, it sees only what is differentiated through light and dark or through colors.”
“One would give generous alms if one had the eyes to see the beauty of a cupped receiving hand.”
“We find from experience that yellow excites a warm and agreeable impression.... The eye is gladdened, the heart expanded and cheered, a glow seems at once to breathe toward us.”

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