Tolerance should really only be a passing attitude: it should lead to appreciation. To tolerate is to offend.
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheIt doesn't behoove elderly persons to follow fashion in their thinking nor in the way they dress.
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheThe useful may be trusted to further itself, for many produce it and no one can do without it; but the beautiful must be specially encouraged, for few can present it, while yet all have need of it.
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheThe use of a thing is only a part of its significance. To know anything thoroughly, to have the full command of it in all its appliances, we must study it on its own account, independently of any special application.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe