If a man knows where to get good advice, it is as though he could supply it himself.

To have more, you must first be more.

I think that I am better than the people who are trying to reform me.

I have often reaped what others have sowed. My work is the work of a collective being that bears the name Goethe.

If children grew up according to early indications, we should have nothing but geniuses.

Wind is the loving Wooer of waters; Wind blends together Billows all-foaming. Spirit of man, Thou art like unto water! Fortune of man, Thou art like unto wind!

The aim of living is life itself.