Everyone believes in his youth that the world really began with him, and that all merely exists for his sake.
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheEvery situation--nay, every moment--is of infinite worth; for it is the representative of a whole eternity.
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheTrue works of art contain their own theory and give us the measurement according to which we should judge them.
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheIn all our academies we attempt far too much. ... In earlier times lectures were delivered upon chemistry and botany as branches of medicine, and the medical student learned enough of them. Now, however, chemistry and botany are become sciences of themselves, incapable of comprehension by a hasty survey, and each demanding the study of a whole life, yet we expect the medical student to understand them. He who is prudent, accordingly declines all distracting claims upon his time, and limits himself to a single branch and becomes expert in one thing.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe