Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Wood burns because it has the proper stuff in it and a man becomes famous because he has the proper stuff in him.

Dream no small dreams for they have no power to move the hearts of men.

An unused life is an early death.

Death is a commingling of eternity with time in the death of a good man, eternity is seen looking through time.

A useless life is an early death.

Science arose from poetry... when times change the two can meet again on a higher level as friends.

Life belongs to the living, and he who lives must be prepared for changes.

If I love you, what business is it of yours?

One cannot develop taste from what is of average quality but only from the very best.

Which government is the best? The one that teaches us to govern ourselves.

The best government is that which teaches us to govern ourselves.

Beauty is everywhere a welcome guest.

Beauty is a manifestation of secret natural laws, which otherwise would have been hidden from us forever.

It is after all the greatest art to limit and isolate oneself.

The biggest problem with every art is by the use of appearance to create a loftier reality.

He who possesses art and science has religion he who does not possess them, needs religion.

In art the best is good enough.

The mediator of the inexpressible is the work of art.

Personality is everything in art and poetry.

I call architecture frozen music.