More from Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  1. When a man stops to ponder his physical or moral condition, he generally finds he is ill.
  2. Whoever, in middle age, attempts to realize the wishes and hopes of his early youth, invariably deceives himself. Each ten years of a man's…
  3. What one knows, one sees.
  4. You must be either the servant or the master, the hammer or the anvil.
  5. 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…
  6. There is nothing more dreadful than imagination without taste.
  7. We do not have to visit a madhouse to find disordered minds; our planet is the mental institution of the universe.
  8. Whatever you can do, or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it. Begin it now.

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