To think is easy. To act is difficult. To act as one thinks is the most difficult.
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheIf we take people only as they are, then we make them worse; if we treat them as if they were what they should be, then we bring them to where they can be brought.
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheWhen translating one must proceed up to the intranslatable; only then one becomes aware of the foreign nation and the foreign tongue.
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheThe deepest, the only theme of human history, compared to which all others are of subordinate importance, is the conflict of skepticism with faith.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe