More from Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  1. All intelligent thoughts have already been thought; what is necessary is only to try to think them again.
  2. Of all peoples the Greeks have dreamt the dream of life best.
  3. A man's manners are a mirror in which he shows his portrait.
  4. Everything that emancipates the spirit without giving us control over ourselves is harmful.
  5. First and last, what is demanded of genius is love of truth.
  6. A collection of anecdotes and maxims is the greatest of treasures for the man of the world, for he knows how to intersperse conversation wi…
  7. The greatest happiness for the thinking man is to have fathomed the fathomable, and to quietly revere the unfathomable.
  8. A man can stand anything except a succession of ordinary days.

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