One should not search for anything behind the phenomena. They themselves are the message.
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheThe people who are absent are the ideal; those who are present seem to be quite commonplace.
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheNature reacts not only to physical disease, but also to moral weakness; when the danger increases; she gives us greater courage
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheWe often feel that we lack something, and seem to see that very quality in someone else, promptly attributing all our own qualities to him too, and a kind of ideal contentment as well. And so the happy mortal is a model of complete perfection--which we have ourselves created.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe