Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

What is important in life is life, and not the result of life.

What is important in life is life, and not the result of life.

We are never deceived, we deceive ourselves.
[Ger., Man wird betrogen, man betrugt sich selbst.]

We are never deceived, we deceive ourselves.
[Ger., Man wird betrogen, man betrugt sich selbst.]

Nature has neither kernel nor shell; she is everything at once

Nature has neither kernel nor shell; she is everything at once

While man's desires and aspirations stir,
He can not choose but err.
[Ger., Es irrt der Mensch read more

While man's desires and aspirations stir,
He can not choose but err.
[Ger., Es irrt der Mensch so lang er strebt.]

We are shaped and fashioned by what we love.

We are shaped and fashioned by what we love.