Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes

One should not search for anything behind the phenomena. They themselves are the message.

To photograph reality is to photograph nothing.

Some people are really, really attracted to looks first, or money, or things like that.

If looks help, that's great, but we don't want it to be the featured thing. It's totally superficial.

When we look at thing, we must examine its essence and treat its appearance merely as an usher at the threshold, we must, once we cross the threshold, grasp the essence of the thing.

When we look for things there is nothing but mind, and when we look for mind there is nothing but things.

The surface of things is not where attention should rest.

You can't be deep without a surface

Things are entirely what they appear to be and behind them... there is nothing.

I am interested in the nature of things. The nature of something is quite different from the way it looks.

All appearances are real and negatio; sophistical: All reality must be sensation.

We have to look at the substance of something rather than the shadow.

My only books were women's looks.

Funny, now I can see, how looks can be deceiving.

I thought again how you could never really know what you were seeing with just a glance, in motion, passing by. Good or bad, right or wrong. There was always so much more.

All I have going is my looks. When my beauty goes, I'm through.

Looking at somebody looking good is so... boring.

You look too pretty to be useful." "Truer words were never spoken.

Conventionality is the tacit agreement to set appearances before reality, form before content.

Outward appearances mean everything.

Some people just see the glory and they don't want to know about the story.

You are but an appearance, and not absolutely the thing you appear to be.

Even with social media and where we are...everything is about the look.

O, what a world of vile ill-favored faults, looks handsome in three hundred pounds a year!

We love good looks rather than what is practical, Though good looks may prove destructive.