"A rainbow which lasts for a quarter..." - Quote by Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
A rainbow which lasts for a quarter of an hour is looked at no longer.
More by Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
“Mountains cannot be surmounted except by winding paths.”
“Man can only endure a certain degree of unhappiness; what is beyond that either annihilates him or passes by him and leaves him apathetic”
“Wealth and speed are what the world admires, what each pursues. Railways, express mails, steamships and every possible facility for communications are the achievement in which the civilized world view and revels, only to languish in mediocrity by that very fact. Indeed, the effect of this diffusion is to spread the culture of the mediocre.”
More on Beauty
“When you think that you are beautiful, you are liable to think that you are more beautiful than others, and such a thought is not a beautiful thought. To recognize or criticize ugliness and inferiority in others is to create the inferior and the ugly in yourself, and what you create in yourself will sooner or later be expressed through your mind and personality.”
“Look, hasn't my body already felt like the body of a flower?”
“True works of art are a manifestation of the higher laws of nature.”