He who possesses art and science has religion; he who does not possess them, needs religion.
~ Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
Where is the man who has the strength to be true, and to show himself as he is?
A useless life is an early death.
An unused life is an early death.
I call architecture frozen music.
Age merely shows what children we remain.
A really great talent finds its happiness in execution.
The person born with a talent they are meant to use will find their greatest happiness in using it.
All intelligent thoughts have already been thought what is necessary is only to try to think them again.
One cannot develop taste from what is of average quality but only from the very best.
Great thoughts and a pure heart, that is what we should ask from God.
If God had wanted me otherwise, He would have created me otherwise.
We know accurately only when we know little, with knowledge doubt increases.
Doubt grows with knowledge.
It is the strange fate of man, that even in the greatest of evils the fear of the worst continues to haunt him.
Wisdom is found only in truth.
Only by joy and sorrow does a person know anything about themselves and their destiny. They learn what to do and what to avoid.
Correction does much, but encouragement does more.
Beauty is everywhere a welcome guest.
Beauty is a manifestation of secret natural laws, which otherwise would have been hidden from us forever.
He who does not think much of himself is much more esteemed than he imagines.
Nothing is more fearful than imagination without taste.
Few people have the imagination for reality.
Personality is everything in art and poetry.
It is after all the greatest art to limit and isolate oneself.
In art the best is good enough.
The mediator of the inexpressible is the work of art.
The biggest problem with every art is by the use of appearance to create a loftier reality.
To rule is easy, to govern difficult.
Which government is the best? The one that teaches us to govern ourselves.
The best government is that which teaches us to govern ourselves.
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.
The way you see people is the way you treat them, and the way you treat them is what they become.
Ignorant men raise questions that wise men answered a thousand years ago.
Everything in the world may be endured except continual prosperity.
He is happiest, be he king or peasant, who finds peace in his home.
On all the peaks lies peace.
Piety is not a goal but a means to attain through the purest peace of mind the highest culture.
All theory, dear friend, is gray, but the golden tree of life springs ever green.
Character develops itself in the stream of life.
