A talent can be cultivated in tranquility; a character only in the rushing stream of life.
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheScience has been seriously retarded by the study of what is not worth knowing and of what is not knowable.
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheTrue religion teaches us to reverence what is under us, to recognize humility and poverty, and, despite mockery and disgrace, wretchedness, suffering, and death, as things divine.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe