Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Take care of your body with steadfast fidelity. The soul must see through these eyes alone, and if they are dim, the whole world is clouded.

Take care of your body with steadfast fidelity.

The art of living rightly is like all arts; it must be learned and practiced with incessant care.

Nothing is worse than active ignorance.

I wish the stage were as narrow as the wire of a tighrope dancer so that no incompetent would dare step upon it.

Not all that is presented to us as history has really happened; and what really happened did not actually happen the way it is presented to us; moreover, what really happened is only a small part of all that happened. Everything in history remains uncertain, the largest events as well as the smallest occurrence.

Happy the man who early learns the wide chasm that lies between his wishes and his powers.

In nature we never see anything isolated, but everything in connection with something else which is before it, beside it, under it and over it.

Take life too seriously, and what is it worth? If the morning wake us to no new joys, if the evening bring us not the hope of new pleasure, is it worthwhile to dress and undress?

Fools and wise men are equally harmless. It is the half-fools and half-wise that are dangerous.

There are situations in which hope and fear run together, in which they mutually destroy one another and lose themselves in dull indifference.

Everything that frees our spirit without giving us control of ourselves is ruinous.

The most congenial social occasions are those ruled by cheerful deference of each for all.

Nature is beneficent. I praise her and all her works. She is silent and wise. She is cunning, but for good ends. She has brought me here and will also lead me away. She may scold me, but she will not hate her work. I trust her.

When two people are really happy about one another one can generally assume they are mistaken.

A teacher who can arouse a feeling for one single good action, for one single good poem, accomplishes more than he who fills our memory with rows and rows of natural objects, classified with name and form.

How can we know ourselves? Never by reflection, but only through action. Begin at once to do your duty and immediately you will know what is inside you.

Mathematics can remove no prejudices and soften no obduracy. It has no influence in sweetening the bitter strife of parties, and in the moral world generally its action is perfectly null.

Ambition and love are the wings of great actions.

Nothing is more terrible than to see ignorance in action.

Fresh activity is the only means of overcoming adversity.