Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“One must ask children and birds how cherries and strawberries taste.”

“Piety is not a goal but a means to attain through the purest peace of mind the highest culture.”

“Superstition is the poetry of life.”

“The Christian religion, though scattered and abroad will in the end gather itself together at the foot of the cross.”

“No one would talk much in society if they knew how often they misunderstood others.”

“Only by joy and sorrow does a person know anything about themselves and their destiny. They learn what to do and what to avoid.”

“Devote each day to the object then in time and every evening will find something done.”

“One always has time enough, if one will apply it well.”

“We always have time enough, if we will but use it aright.”

“Trust yourself, then you will know how to live.”

“Just trust yourself, then you will know how to live.”

“As soon as you trust yourself, you will know how to live.”

“Wisdom is found only in truth.”

“In nature we never see anything isolated, but everything in connection with something else which is before it, beside it, under it and over it.”