I hate everything that merely instructs me without augmenting or directly invigorating my activity.
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheIn politics as on a sickbed men toss from side to side in hope of lying more comfortably.
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheIf a man or woman is born ten years sooner or later, their whole aspect and performance shall be different.
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheFor that is love's nature that it lays claim to exclusive right and that all other claims are nil.
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheTrue observers of nature, although they may think differently, will still agree that everything that is, everything that is observable as a phenomenon, can only exhibit itself in one of two ways. It is either a primal polarity that is able to unify, or it is a primal unity that is able to divide. The operation of nature consists of splitting the united or uniting the divided; this is the eternal movement of systole and diastole of the heartbeat, the inhalation and exhalation of the world in which we live, act, and exist.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe