Johann Peter Eckermann Quotes

• Invention requires an excited mind; execution, a calm one.

  Johann Peter Eckermann

  Mind, Execution, Calm

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• A man of talent is not born to be left to himself, but to devote himself to art and good masters who will make something of him.

  Johann Peter Eckermann

  Art, Men, Talent

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Johann Peter Eckermann (2014). “Conversations of Goethe with Johann Peter Eckermann”, p.181, Ravenio Books

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• Wearing spectacles makes men conceited, because spectacles raise them to a degree of sensual perfection which is far above the power of their own nature.

  Johann Peter Eckermann

  Conceited, Men, Perfection

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Johann Peter Eckermann, Frédéric Jacob Soret (1850). “Conversations of Goethe with Eckermann and Soret”, p.277

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