"To every one [Nature] appears in a..." - Quote by Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

“There is but one poetry,--true poetry.”

“All understanding begins in wonder!”

“Try novelties for salesman's bait, For novelty wins everyone.”

“Everyone wants to understand art. Why not try to understand the song of a bird? ...people who try to explain pictures are usually barking up the wrong tree.”

“True works of art are a manifestation of the higher laws of nature.”

“The true man of science will know nature better by his finer organization; he will smell, taste, see, hear, feel, better than other men. His will be a deeper and finer experience. We do not learn by inference and deduction and the application of mathematics to philosophy, but by direct intercourse and sympathy. It is with science as with ethics,--we cannot know truth by contrivance and method; the Baconian is as false as any other, and with all the helps of machinery and the arts, the most scientific will still be the healthiest and friendliest man, and possess a more perfect Indian wisdom.”

“All that you see out in front of you is how you feel inside your head.”

“Who would believe that so small a space could contain the images of all the universe?”

“A man does not call a line crooked unless he has some idea of a straight line.”