Altogether national hatred is something peculiar. You will always find it strongest and most violent where there is the lowest degree of culture.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes
The effects of good music are not just because it’s new; on the contrary, music strikes us more the more familiar we are with it.
A man should hear a little music, read a little poetry, and see a fine picture every day of his life, in order that worldly cares may not obliterate the sense of the beautiful which God has implanted in the human soul.
Plunge boldly into the thick of life!
The intelligent man finds almost everything ridiculous, the sensible man hardly anything.
The phrases men are accustomed to repeat incessantly, end by becoming convictions and ossify the organs of intelligence.
The world is so full of simpletons and madmen, that one need not seek them in a madhouse.
Ingratitude is always a form of weakness. I have never known a man of real ability to be ungrateful.
Enjoy what thou has inherited from thy sires if thou wouldst really possess it. What we employ and use is never an oppressive burden; what the moment brings forth, that only can it profit by.
I should be sorely tempted, if I were ten years younger, to make a journey to India – not for the purpose of discovering something new but in order to view in my way what has been discovered.
