“ Music is either sacred or secular. The sacred agrees with its dignity, and here has its greatest effect on life, an effect that remains the same through all ages and epochs. Secular music should be ch… Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“ Character, in great and little things, means carrying through what you feel able to do. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“ It seems to never occur to fools that merit and good fortune are closely united. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“ Go to foreign countries and you will get to know the good things one possesses at home. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“ This is the true measure of love: when we believe that we alone can love, that no one could ever have loved so before us, and that no one will ever love in the same way after us. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“ This is the highest wisdom that I own freedom and life are earned by those alone who conquer them each day anew. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“ If you treat an individual as he is, he will remain how he is. But if you treat him as if he were what he ought to be and could be, he will become what he ought to be and could be. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“ Devote each day to the object then in time and every evening will find something done. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“ It is not doing the thing we like to do, but liking the thing we have to do, that makes life blessed. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“ All truly wise thoughts have been thought already thousands of times; but to make them truly ours, we must think them over again honestly, until they take root in our personal experience. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“ We can't form our children on our own concepts we must take them and love them as God gives them to us. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“ Happiness is a ball after which we run wherever it rolls, and we push it with our feet when it stops. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“ What's foreign one can't always keep quite clear of,For good things, oft, are not so near;A German can't endure the French to see or hear of,Yet drinks their wines with hearty cheer. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“ We are so constituted that we believe the most incredible things; and, once they are engraved upon the memory, woe to him who would endeavour to efface them. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“ Here too it’s masquerade, I find: As everywhere, the dance of mind.I grasped a lovely masked procession,And caught things from a horror show…I’d gladly settle for a false impression,If it would last a… Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“ When I say to the Moment flying;'Linger a while -- thou art so fair!'Then bind me in thy bonds undying,And my final ruin I will bear! Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
