Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“What is uttered from the heart alone, Will win the hearts of others to your own.”

“I call architecture frozen music.”

“What is important in life is life, and not the result of life.”

“Thinking is more interesting than knowing, but less interesting than looking.”

“To rule is easy, to govern difficult.”

“He only earns his freedom and his life Who takes them every day by storm.”

“The soul that sees beauty may sometimes walk alone.”

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

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

“None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free.”

“The mediator of the inexpressible is the work of art.”

“Error is acceptable as long as we are young; but one must not drag it along into old age.”

“Age merely shows what children we remain.”

“Beauty is everywhere a welcome guest.”

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

“In art the best is good enough.”

“Character develops itself in the stream of life.”

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

“Nothing is worth more than this day.”

“The artist alone sees spirits. But after he has told of their appearing to him, everybody sees them.”

“All theory, dear friend, is gray, but the golden tree of life springs ever green.”