Truth is a torch, but a huge one, and so it is only with blinking eyes what we all of us try to get past it, in actual terror of being burnt.
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheThe child, offered the mother's breast, Will not in the beginning grab it; But soon it clings to it with zest. And thus at wisdom's copious breasts You'll drink each day with greater zest.
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheWe are the slaves of objects around us, and appear little or important according as these contract or give us room to expand.
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheMisunderstandings and neglect occasion more mischief in the world than malice and wickedness.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe