"Nature is beneficent. I praise her and..." - Quote by Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
Nature is beneficent. I praise her and all her works. She is silent and wise. She is cunning, but for good ends. She has brought me here and will also lead me away. She may scold me, but she will not hate her work. I trust her.
More by Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
“One spares old people just as one spares children.”
“No two men see the world exactly alike, and different temperaments will apply in different ways a principle that they both acknowledge.”
“For a strolling damsel a doubtful reputation bears.[Ger., Denn ein wanderndes Madchen ist immer von schwankendem Rufe.]”
More on Nature
“If speculation tends thus to a terrific unity, in which all things are absorbed, action tends directly back to diversity. The first is the course or gravitation of mind; the second is the power of nature. Nature is manifold. The unity absorbs, and melts or reduces. Nature opens and creates. These two principles reappear and interpenetrate all things, all thought; the one, the many.”
“To every one [Nature] appears in a form of his own. She hides herself in a thousand names and terms, and is always the same.”
“On the bat’s back I do fly After summer merrily.”
More on Trust
“[Referring to a glass of water:] I mixed this myself. Two parts H, one part O. I don't trust anybody!”
“I think, under President Obama, who was a really bright guy - I didn't agree with a lot of his politics - but we got to the point internationally where our friends didn't trust us. They were confused. And our enemies didn't quite respect us.”
“Democracy will break under the strain of apron strings. It can exist only on trust.”