Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

As our inclinations, so our opinions.

When I make a mistake everyone can see it, but not when I lie.

Nature has neither core nor skin: she’s both at once outside and in.

It is the nature of grace always to fill spaces that have been empty.

Good children's literature appeals not only to the child in the adult, but to the adult in the child.

You don't have to travel around the world to understand that the sky is blue everywhere

It would be a lowly art that allowed itself to be understood all at once.

How marvelous, wide and broad is my Inheritance! Time is my property, my estate is time.

There are but two roads that lead to an important goal and to the doing of great things: strength and perseverance. Strength is the lot of but a few privileged men; but austere perseverance, harsh and continuous, may be employed by the smallest of us and rarely fails of its purpose, for its silent power grows irresistibly greater with time.

Three things are to be looked to in a building: that it stand on the right spot; that it is securely founded; that it be successfully executed.

As long as you don't practice it, this dying and becoming, You are only a dreary guest on this dark earth.

Master and Doctor are my titles; for ten years now, without repose, I held my erudite recitals and led my pupils by the nose.

Human life runs its course in the metamorphosis between receiving and giving.

Instruction does much, but encouragement everything.

Few are open to conviction, but the majority of men are open to persuasion

The beautiful is a phenomenon which is never apparent of itself, but is reflected in a thousand different works of the creator.

The best pleasures of this world are not quite true.

The highest happiness, the purest joys of life, wear out at last.

There is no surer method of evading the world than by following Art, and no surer method of linking oneself to it than by Art.

In the end we are all separate: our stories, no matter how similar, come to a fork and diverge. We are drawn to each other because of our similarities, but it is our differences we must learn to respect.

The close and thoughtful observer more and more learns to recognize his limitations. He realizes that with the steady growth of knowledge more and more new problems keep on emerging.