Johann Wolfgang von Goethe:
(28 August 1749 – 22 March 1832)
German polymath and writer, who is widely regarded as the greatest and most influential writer in the German language.
By seeking and blundering we learn.
It’s all messy: the hair, the bed, the words, the heart. Life.
Every day we should hear at least one little song, read one good poem, see one exquisite picture, and, if possible, speak a few sensible words.
The erring man substitutes violence for what he lacks in truth and strength.
Our life, like the whole in which we are contained, is composed in an incomprehensible way of freedom and necessity.
You can easily judge the character of a man by how he treats those who can do nothing for him.
Those who sleep in democracy wake up in dictatorship.
One can live in true freedom and yet not be unattached.
Difficulties increase the nearer we get to the goal.
Life is important in life, not the result.
Only those who give away know joy.
Only in limitation does the master show himself, and only the law can give us freedom.
Whatever you can do or dream of doing, start doing it. Boldness has genius, power and magic in it.
Whatever appears to you as truth or fable In a thousand books, All this is the Tower of Babel, If it does not unite love.
