"As soon as any one belongs to..." - Quote by Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

“Modern poets add a lot of water to their ink.”

“Zweck sein selbst ist jegliches Tier.Each animal is an end in itself.”

“Love, whose power youth feels, is not suitable for the elderly, just as little as anything that presupposes productivity. It is rare that productivity lasts through the years.”

“A critic should be taught to criticise a work of art without making any reference to the personality of the author.”

“Objectivity and justice have nothing to do with one another.”

“You cannot see the mountain near.”

“The eye which can appreciate the naked and absolute beauty of a scientific truth is far more rare than that which is attracted by a moral one.”

“All problems are finally scientific problems.”

“The history of scientific and technical discovery teaches us that the human race is poor in independent and creative imagination. Even when the external and scientific requirements for the birth of an idea have long been there, it generally needs an external stimulus to make it actually happen; man has, so to speak, to stumble right up against the thing before the idea comes.”