More from Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  1. Things that matter most must never be at the mercy of things that matter least.
  2. To have seen Italy without having seen Sicily is not to have seen Italy at all, for Sicily is the clue to everything.
  3. There are two things children should get from their parents: roots and wings.
  4. We are shaped and fashioned by what we love.
  5. The world is so empty if one thinks only of mountains, rivers and cities; but to know someone here and there who thinks and feels with us, …
  6. We do not have to visit a madhouse to find disordered minds; our planet is the mental institution of the universe.
  7. The phrases that men hear or repeat continually, end by becoming convictions and ossify the organs of intelligence.
  8. We lay aside letters never to read them again, and at last we destroy them out of discretion, and so disappears the most beautiful, the mos…

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