A mathematician is only perfect insofar as he is a perfect man, sensitive to the beauty of truth.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe on Valentine's Day
1749–1832 Germany
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Pleasure and love are the pinions of great deeds.
Iphigenie auf Tauris (1787)
I love those who yearn for the impossible.
Faust, Part 2 (1832)
Girls we love for what they are;
Young men for what they promise to be.
Hermann und Dorothea (1797)
Beauty is not so much performance as promise.
Love and desire are the spirit's wings to great deeds.
If I love you, what business is that of yours?
It is one of Heaven's best gifts to hold such a dear creature in one's arms.
Love does not dominate, it cultivates. And that is more.
I too was fair, and that was my undoing.
What's it to you if I love you?
Wilhelm Meister's Lehrjahre (Apprenticeship) (1786)
Roman Elegies (1789)
A world without love would be no world.
Roman Elegies (1789)
Maxims and Reflections (1833)
My peace is gone, my heart is heavy.
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Attribution
Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.