(18 quotes found)
“One never goes so far as when one doesn't know where one is going”
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“How shall we learn to know ourselves? By reflection? Never; but only through action. Strive to do thy duty; then you shall know what is in thee.”
“Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing; a confusion of the real with the ideal never goes unpunished”
“It is easier to perceive error than to find truth, for the former lies on the surface and is easily seen, while the latter lies in the depth, where few are willing to search for it.”
“If you start to think about your physical or moral condition, you usually find that you are sick”
“He's the only person I know who read all 42 volumes of the works of Goethe in German and he read them all twice,”
John Knapp
“Close thy Byron; open thy Goethe.”
Thomas Carlyle
