Johann Peter Eckermann quotes

Johann Peter Eckermann quotes

last updated: November 28, 2023

“Wearing spectacles makes men conceited, because spectacles raise them to a degree of sensual perfection which is far above the power of their own nature.”
-- Johann Peter Eckermann

Source : Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Johann Peter Eckermann, Frédéric Jacob Soret (1850). “Conversations of Goethe with Eckermann and Soret”, p.277

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“A man of talent is not born to be left to himself, but to devote himself to art and good masters who will make something of him.”
-- Johann Peter Eckermann

Source : Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Johann Peter Eckermann (2014). “Conversations of Goethe with Johann Peter Eckermann”, p.181, Ravenio Books

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“Invention requires an excited mind; execution, a calm one.”
-- Johann Peter Eckermann

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