"We all walk in mysteries. We are..." - Quote by Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

“The greatest evil that can befall man is that he should come to think ill of himself.”

“The man who acts never has any conscience; no one has any conscience but the man who thinks”

“From desire I plunge to its fulfilment, where I long once more for desire.”

“It is enough for me to contemplate the mystery of conscious life perpetuating itself through all eternity, to reflect upon the marvelous structure of the universe which we dimly perceive, and to try humbly to comprehend an infinitesimal part of the intelligence manifested in nature.”

“Only that which does not teach, which does not cry out, which does not condescend, which does not explain, is irresistible.”

“The only things one can admire at length are those one admires without knowing why.”

“I am quite correctly described as 'more of a sponge than an inventor....'”

“He who has a garden and a library wants for nothing.”

“Pleasure is not the goal of man, but knowledge. Pleasure and happiness comes to an end. It is a mistake to suppose that pleasure is the goal. The cause of all the miseries we have in the world is that men foolishly think pleasure to be the ideal to strive for. After a time man finds that it is not happiness, but knowledge, towards which he is going, and that both pleasure and pain are great teachers.”