Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“There is nothing insignificant in the world. It all depends on the point of view.”

“He who has a task to perform must know how to take sides, or he is quite unworthy of it.”

“Piety is not a goal but a means to attain through the purest peace of mind the highest culture.”

“One always has time enough, if one will apply it well.”

“The greatest thing in this world is not so much where we stand as in what direction we are moving.”

“Where is the man who has the strength to be true, and to show himself as he is?”

“What is my life if I am no longer useful to others.”

“Doubt grows with knowledge.”

“This is the highest wisdom that I own; freedom and life are earned by those alone who conquer them each day anew.”

“It is ever true that he who does nothing for others, does nothing for himself.”

“For just when ideas fail, a word comes in to save the situation.”

“I am not omniscient, but I know a lot.”

“A flippant, frivolous man may ridicule others, may controvert them, scorn them; but he who has any respect for himself seems to have renounced the right of thinking meanly of others.”

“Nature knows no pause in progress and development, and attaches her curse on all inaction.”

“Everything in the world may be endured except continual prosperity.”

“A person hears only what they understand.”

“Those who know nothing of foreign languages know nothing of their own.”

“Mysteries are not necessarily miracles.”

“What you feed in yourself that grows.”

“I am the spirit that negates.And rightly so, for all that comes to beDeserves to perish wretchedly;'Twere better nothing would begin.Thus everything that that your terms, sin,Destruction, evil represent—That is my proper element.”