Taste is only to be educated by contemplation, not of the tolerably go…

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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Taste is only to be educated by contemplation, not of the tolerably good but of the truly excellent. I therefore show you only the best works; and when you are grounded in these, you will have a standard for the rest, which you will know how to value, without overrating them. ✨ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Johann Peter Eckermann, Frédéric Jacob Soret (1850). Conversations of Goethe with Eckermann and Soret, p.137
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