“ I was on the point of breaking off the conversation, for nothing puts me so completely out of patience as the utterance of a wretched commonplace when I am talking from my inmost heart. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“ What is the destiny of man, but to fill up the measure of his sufferings, and to drink his allotted cup of bitterness? Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“ When a nation which has long groaned under the intolerable yoke of a tyrant rises at last and throws off its chains, do you call that weakness? The man who, to rescue his house from the flames, finds… Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“ The affairs of the world are no more than so much trickery, and a man who toils for money or honour or whatever else in deference to the wishes of others, rather than because his own desire or needs l… Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“ We often feel that we lack something, and seem to see that very quality in someone else, promptly attributing all our own qualities to him too, and a kind of ideal contentment as well. And so the happ… Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“ No one is willing to believe that adults too, like children, wander about this earth in a daze and, like children, do not know where they come from or where they are going, act as rarely as they do ac… Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“ And while throughout the self same motion Repeated on forever flows The thousandfold o er arching ocean Its strong embrace around all throws Streams through all things the joy of living The least star… Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“ I possess so much, but my love for her absorbs it all. I possess so much, but without her I have nothing. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“ The world admires wealth and velocity—these are the things for which everyone strives. Railroads, the post, steamboats, and all possible modes of communication are the means by which the world overedu… Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“ You are aware of only one unrest;Oh, never learn to know the other!Two souls, alas, are dwelling in my breast,And one is striving to forsake its brother.Unto the world in grossly loving zest,With clin… Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“ You must, in studying Nature, always consider both each single thing and the whole: nothing is inside and nothing is outside, for what is within is without. Make haste, then, to grasp this holy myster… Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“ Nothing can be compared to the new life that the discovery of another country provides for a thoughtful person. Although I am still the same I believe to have changed to the bones. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“ The human race is a monotonous affair. Most people spend the greatest part of their time working in order to live, and what little freedom remains so fills them with fear that they seek out any and ev… Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“ If the whole world I once could seeOn free soil stand, with the people freeThen to the moment might I say,Linger awhile. . .so fair thou art. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“ Anything in the world can be endured, except a series of wonderful days. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
