"One can be very happy without demanding that others should agree with him."

-- Goethe

"It is not doing the things we like to do, but liking the things we have to do that makes life blessed."

-- Goethe

"A man doesn't learn to understand anything unless he loves it."

-- Goethe

"All truly wise thoughts have been thought already thousands of times; but to make them truly ours, we must think them over again honestly, till they take root in our personal experience."

-- Goethe

"Thinking is more interesting than knowing, but less interesting than looking."

-- Goethe

"The first sign that we do not know what we are doing is an obsession with numbers."

-- Goethe

"Do not, I beg you look for anything behind phenomena. They are themselves their own lesson."

-- Goethe

"Faith is not the beginning but the end of knowledge."

-- Goethe

"I let everyone follow his own bent that I may be free to follow mine."

-- Goethe

"Nothing is worth more than this day."

-- Goethe

"The most original authors are not so because they advance what is new, but because they put what they have to say as if it had never been said before."

-- Goethe

"If you want to advance into the infinite, explore the finite in all directions."

-- Goethe

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

-- Goethe

"This is a lesson we cannot learn too soon, that the world can go on easily without us."

-- Goethe

"We are shaped and fashioned by what we love."

-- Goethe