Johann von Goethe Video

Courage consists of the power of self-recovery.

You have powers you never dreamed of. You can do things you never thought you could do. there are no limitations in what you can do except the limitations of your own mind.

Write the bad things that are done to you in sand, but write the good things that happen to you on a piece of marble.

The people are that part of the state that does now know what it wants.

The historian is a prophet in reverse.

A heretic is a man who sees with his own eyes.

Keep true, never be ashamed of doing right; decide on what you think is right and stick to it.

I searched for God and found only myself. I searched for myself and found only God.

By always thinking unto them. I keep the subject constantly before me and wait till the first dawnings open little by little into the full light.

At least I have the modesty to admit that lack of modesty is one of my failings

If a composer could say what he had to say in words he would not bother trying to say it in music.

When books are burned in the end people will be burned too.

The music is not in the notes, but in the silence between.

Music is the wine which inspires one to new generative processes, and I am Bacchus who presses out this glorious wine for mankind and makes them spiritually drunken.

There are, in fact, two things: science and opinion; the former begets knowledge, the latter ignorance.