A quotation from Goethe

Nothing is more frightful than imagination without taste.
 
[Es ist nichts furchterlicher als Einbildungskraft ohne Geschmack.]

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832) German poet, statesman, scientist
Sprüche in Prosa: Maximen und Reflexionen [Proverbs in Prose: Maxims and Reflections] (1833) [tr. Saunders (1893), #489]

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Sprüche in Prosa: Maximen und Reflexionen [Proverbs in Prose: Maxims and Reflections] (1833) [tr. Saunders (1893), #489] - Goethe, Johann von | WIST Quotations

Nothing is more frightful than imagination without taste. [Es ist nichts furchterlicher als Einbildungskraft ohne Geschmack.] From Wilhelm Meister's Journeyman Years (1829). (Source (German)). Alternate translations: There is nothing so horrible as imagination devoid of taste. [tr. Rönnfeldt (1900)] There is nothing more awful than imagination devoid of taste. [tr.…

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#Insipidity - The quality or state of being insipid; vapidity.