It is quite beyond me how anyone can believe God speaks to us in books and stories. If the world does not directly reveal to us our relationship to it, if our hearts fail to tell us what we owe ourselves and others, we shall assuredly not learn it from books, which are at best designed but to give names to our errors.
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheNothing is worth more than this day. You cannot relive yesterday. Tomorrow is still beyond your reach.
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheWhoever would do good in the world, ought not to deal in censure. We ought not to destroy, but rather construct.
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheI have found among my papers a sheet . . . in which I call architecture frozen music.
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheBe always resolute with the present hour. Every moment is of infinite value.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe