Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Wisdom is found only in truth.

As soon as you trust yourself, you will know how to live.

Just trust yourself, then you will know how to live.

Trust yourself, then you will know how to live.

We always have time enough, if we will but use it aright.

One always has time enough, if one will apply it well.

Devote each day to the object then in time and every evening will find something done.

Only by joy and sorrow does a person know anything about themselves and their destiny. They learn what to do and what to avoid.

Where is the man who has the strength to be true, and to show himself as he is?

One can be instructed in society, one is inspired only in solitude.

No one would talk much in society if they knew how often they misunderstood others.

The Christian religion, though scattered and abroad will in the end gather itself together at the foot of the cross.

Superstition is the poetry of life.

Piety is not a goal but a means to attain through the purest peace of mind the highest culture.

On all the peaks lies peace.

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.

One must ask children and birds how cherries and strawberries taste.

Nature knows no pause in progress and development, and attaches her curse on all inaction.

Music is either sacred or secular. The sacred agrees with its dignity, and here has its greatest effect on life, an effect that remains the same through all ages and epochs. Secular music should be cheerful throughout.

Many people take no care of their money till they come nearly to the end of it, and others do just the same with their time.