Character: J. W. Goethe

Gods, innumerable, give everything to their favorites, all in full: all the joys are innumerable, all the pains, innumerable, all in full ...

How slowly time flows in music; she concludes so many events and feelings in a short moment that it begins to seem as if long, long periods have passed! What is short and long?

Keep track of every day, count every minute spent. Time is the only place where stinginess is commendable. Here's the music. It is a threat to the clarity of the spirit, but it is also a magical means of keeping time.

Philosophy destroys my poetry.

By recognizing freedom for man, we encroach on divine omniscience, since the deity knows how I will act, I am no longer free to do otherwise.

A person was born not to solve world problems, but perhaps to understand how to approach them, and continue to keep within the boundaries of the comprehensible. It is beyond his ability to measure the accomplishments of the universe, to strive to bring a rational principle into the universe, with his limited outlook, is an attempt with unsuitable means. The mind of a person and the mind of a deity are incomparable.

Who lived will turn into nothing.

I am sure that I - the one who is in front of you, has lived thousands of times and will live thousands of times.

As a writer, I never asked what benefits I bring to society. No, I always wanted to become smarter and better myself, to make my personality more meaningful and to express only what I consider to be true and good.

A person who is tormented for money, honor or something else is always a fool.

If philosophy reinforces and asserts our initial feeling that we and nature are one, if it turns this belief into deep, calm contemplation, then I welcome philosophy.

Struggle is a kind of unity.

occasion, they are inspired by reality. Poems that are not related to life are nothing to me.

I have always believed that knowledge is not completely useless.