The soul of the Christian religion is reverence.

The arts are the salt of the earth; as salt relates to food, the arts relate to technology.

Whoso is content with pure experience and acts upon it has enough of truth.

The sun had, in the meanwhile, sunk behind the Ettersberg. We felt in the wood the chill of the evening, and drove all the quicker to Wiemar, and to Goethe's house. Goethe urged me to go in with him for a while, and I did so. He was in an extremely engaging mood. He talked a great deal about his theory of colors, and of his obstinate opponents; remarking that he was sure that he had done something in this science.

Hell begins the day that God grants you the vision to see all that you could have done, should have done, and would have done, but did not do.

Is this the destiny of man? Is he only happy before he has acquired his reason or after he has lost it?

Look at a man the way he is and he only becomes worse, but look at him as if he were what he could be, then he becomes what he should be.