Music, in the best sense, does not require novelty; nay, the older it is, and the more we are accustomed to it, the greater its effect.
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheIt 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 GoetheOblivion is full of people who allow the opinions of others to overrule their belief in themselves.
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheWe're only really thinking when we can't think out fully what we are really thinking about!
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe