Whatever is the lot of humankind I want to taste within my deepest self. I want to seize the highest and the lowest, to load its woe and bliss upon my breast, and thus expand my single self titanically and in the end go down with all the rest.
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheCharacter, in great and little things, means carrying through what you feel able to do.
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheI have observed that as long as one lives and bestirs himself, he can always find food and raiment, though it may not be of the choicest description.
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheIt is so hard that one cannot really have confidence in doctors and yet cannot do without them.
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheWhoever strikes at marriage either by word or act undermines the foundation of all moral society.
Johann Wolfgang von GoethePeople are always talking about originality; but what do they mean? As soon as we are born, the world begins to work upon us; and this goes on to the end. And after all, what can we call our own, except energy, strength, and will? If I could give an account of all that I owe to great predecessors and contemporaries, there would be but a small balance in my favor.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe