Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

To the person with a firm purpose all men and things are servants.

Self-knowledge comes from knowing other men.

Men show their character in nothing more clearly than what they think laughable.

Ignorant men raise questions that wise men answered a thousand years ago.

There is a courtesy of the heart it is allied to love. From its springs the purest courtesy in the outward behavior.

Love can do much, but duty more.

First and last, what is demanded of genius is love of truth.

Girls we love for what they are young men for what they promise to be.

To witness two lovers is a spectacle for the gods.

Love does not dominate it cultivates.

It is not doing the thing we like to do, but liking the thing we have to do, that makes life blessed.

Character develops itself in the stream of life.

What is important in life is life, and not the result of life.

I love those who yearn for the impossible.

We know accurately only when we know little, with knowledge doubt increases.

Doubt grows with knowledge.

All the knowledge I possess everyone else can acquire, but my heart is all my own.

All intelligent thoughts have already been thought what is necessary is only to try to think them again.

Nothing is more fearful than imagination without taste.

Few people have the imagination for reality.