Everything that we call Invention or Discovery in the higher sense of the word is the serious exercise and activity of an original feeling for truth, which, after a long course of silent cultivation, suddenly flashes out into fruitful knowledge.


The Maxims and Reflections of Goethe (ed. 1906)

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes

Everything that we call Invention or Discovery in the higher sense of the word is the serious exercise and activity of an original feeling for truth, ...

Everything that we call Invention or Discovery in the higher sense of the word is the serious exercise and activity of an original feeling for truth, ...

Everything that we call Invention or Discovery in the higher sense of the word is the serious exercise and activity of an original feeling for truth, ...

Everything that we call Invention or Discovery in the higher sense of the word is the serious exercise and activity of an original feeling for truth, ...