Reality surpasses imagination; and we see, breathing, brightening, and moving before our eyes sights dearer to our hearts than any we ever beheld in the land of sleep.
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheYou must either conquer and rule or serve and lose, suffer or triumph, be the anvil or the hammer.
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheI have always paid attention to the merits of my enemies, and found it an advantage.
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheWe are pantheists as natural scientists, polytheists as poets, and monotheists as moral beings.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe