Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Zweck sein selbst ist jegliches Tier. _x000D_ _x000D_ Each animal is an end in itself.

He who does not see the whole world in his friends, does not deserve that the world should hear of him.

To know someone here or there with whom you can feel there is understanding in spite of distances or thoughts expressed That can make life a garden.

A joy shared is a joy doubled.

The greatest difficulties lie where we are not looking for them.

The wealth that cannot be administered is a burden.

No one should be rich except those who understand it.

People have a peculiar pleasure in making converts, that is, in causing others to enjoy what they enjoy, thus finding their own likeness represented and reflected back to them.

A talent is formed in stillness, a character in the world's torrent.

Ye great teachers: listen to what you say!

What I possess I would gladly retain. Change amuses the mind, yet scarcely profits.

It is easier to perceive error than to find truth, for the former lies on the surface and is easily seen, while the latter lies in the depth, where few are willing to search for it.

Nothing is more damaging to the truth than an old error.

Hell begins the day that God grants you the vision to see all that you could have done, should have done, and would have done, but did not do.

Every man has enough power left to carry out that of which he is convinced.

Legislators and revolutionaries who promise both equality and liberty are visionaries and charlatans.

I hate all bungling as I do sin, but particularly bungling in politics, which leads to the misery and ruin of many thousands and millions of people.

There is no trifling with nature; it is always true, grave, and severe; it is always in the light, and the faults and errors fall to our share. It defies incompetency, but reveals its secrets to the competent, the truthful, and the pure.

Belief is not the beginning of knowledge - it is the end.

The deepest, the only theme of human history, compared to which all others are of subordinate importance, is the conflict of skepticism with faith.

As man is, so is his God. And thus is God oft strangely odd.