"Who are you then?" "I am part..." - Quote by Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

“Reason can never be popular. Passions and feelings may become popular, but reason will always remain the sole property of a few eminent individuals.”

“The loss of a much-prized treasure is only half felt when we have not regarded its tenure as secure.”

“Voluntary dependence is the wonderful form of existence, and how could that be possible without love?”

“Man has always been half-monster, half-dreamer.”

“And one of the elders of the city , said , speak to us of good and evil. And he answered : You are good in countless ways , and you are not evil when you are not good .”

“And the glory of character is in affronting the horrors of depravity to draw thence new nobilities of power: as Art lives and thrills in new use and combining of contrasts, and mining into the dark evermore for blacker pits of night.”

“The sad truth is that man's real life consists of a complex of inexorable opposites - day and night, birth and death, happiness and misery, good and evil. We are not even sure that one will prevail against the other, that good will overcome evil, or joy defeat pain. Life is a battleground. It always has been and always will be; and if it were not so, existence would come to an end.”

“Then to the depths! - I could as well say height: It's all the same.”

“joy and sorrow are inseparable. . . together they come and when one sits alone with you . . remember that the other is asleep upon your bed.”