3 December 2020 Johann Wolfgang von Goethe We cannot fashion our children after our desires, we must have them and love them as God has given them to us.
3 December 2020 Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Character, in great and little things, means carrying through what you feel able to do.
3 December 2020 Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Beauty is a manifestation of secret natural laws, which otherwise would have been hidden from us forever.
3 December 2020 Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Go to foreign countries and you will get to know the good things one possesses at home.
3 December 2020 Johann Wolfgang von Goethe We can’t form our children on our own concepts we must take them and love them as God gives them to us.
3 December 2020 Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Happiness is a ball after which we run wherever it rolls, and we push it with our feet when it stops.
3 December 2020 Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Dream no small dreams for they have no power to move the hearts of men.
3 December 2020 Johann Wolfgang von Goethe The best government is that which teaches us to govern ourselves.
3 December 2020 Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Ignorant men raise questions that wise men answered a thousand years ago.
3 December 2020 Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 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.
3 December 2020 Johann Wolfgang von Goethe It is after all the greatest art to limit and isolate oneself.
3 December 2020 Johann Wolfgang von Goethe First and last, what is demanded of genius is love of truth.
3 December 2020 Johann Wolfgang von Goethe None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free.
3 December 2020 Johann Wolfgang von Goethe The biggest problem with every art is by the use of appearance to create a loftier reality.
3 December 2020 Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Death is a commingling of eternity with time in the death of a good man, eternity is seen looking through time.
3 December 2020 Johann Wolfgang von Goethe The person born with a talent they are meant to use will find their greatest happiness in using it.
3 December 2020 Johann Wolfgang von Goethe One can be instructed in society, one is inspired only in solitude.
3 December 2020 Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Only by joy and sorrow does a person know anything about themselves and their destiny. They learn what to do and what to avoid.
3 December 2020 Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 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.
