Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

"The greatest evil is not in surrendering to death, but in abandoning the will to live."

"Talent is developed in solitude, character is formed in the tumult of the world."

"Kindness is the language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see."

"No one is as hopelessly enslaved as the person who thinks he is free."

"The beautiful days make us sad because we are not sure they will return."

"To do the right deed for the wrong reason is to lose both."

"We must always change, renew, rejuvenate ourselves; otherwise, we harden."

"No one can see their reflection in running water. It is only in still water that the image is revealed."

"The man of understanding finds everything laughable."

"There is strong shadow where there is much light."

"The wheel of law is righteousness; the axis of the wheel is truth."

"Three things are to be looked at: whence you came, whither you are going, and to whom you must account."

"A useless life is an early death."

"The important thing is not the length of your life, but the depth."

"Everyone is the architect of their own fortune."

"Nature is not a phenomenon to be explained by human categories, but a phenomenon to be experienced."

"I am not bound to succeed, but I am bound to live up to what light I have."

"The more we know of foreign countries, the more we love our own."

"Gray, dear friend, is all theory, and green the golden tree of life."

"Music is liquid architecture; architecture is frozen music."

"In every human being there is such dignity that we cannot without shame treat him merely as a means."

"The greatest wisdom is not in seeing into the future, but in not desiring to do so."

"All creatures have in them something worthy of being wondered at."

"This being human is a guest house; every feeling is a visitor."

"The masses elevate the exceptional man; the exceptional man serves the masses."

"What you can do or dream you can, begin it."

"The heart of knowledge is sympathy."

"What is there more terrible than a track of snow in the forest or a cry heard by night?"

"The deed is everything, the glory naught."

"Two things a man should never be angry at: what he can help, and what he cannot."