Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quote

Man knows himself only insofar as he knows the world, becoming aware of it if only within himself, and of himself self only within it. Each new subject, well observed, opens up within us a new organ of thought.


Botanical Writings (ed. 1952)


Man knows himself only insofar as he knows the world, becoming aware of it if only within himself, and of himself self only within it. Each new...

Man knows himself only insofar as he knows the world, becoming aware of it if only within himself, and of himself self only within it. Each new...

Man knows himself only insofar as he knows the world, becoming aware of it if only within himself, and of himself self only within it. Each new...

Man knows himself only insofar as he knows the world, becoming aware of it if only within himself, and of himself self only within it. Each new...