The credit of advancing science has always been due to individuals and never to the age. - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Thinking is more interesting than knowing, but less interesting than looking. - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
All theory, dear friend, is gray, but the golden tree of life springs ever green. - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Ignorant men raise questions that wise men answered a thousand years ago. - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Science arose from poetry... when times change the two can meet again on a higher level as friends. - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Music is either sacred or secular. The sacred agrees with its dignity, and here has its greatest effect on life, an effect that remains the same through all ages and epochs. Secular music should be cheerful throughout. - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
A man is never such an egoist as at moments of spiritual ecstasy. At such times it seems to him that there is nothing on earth more splendid and interesting than himself. - Leo Tolstoy
The feelings resembled memories; but memories of what? Apparently one can remember things that have never happened. - Leo Tolstoy
I had begun to feel that life was a repetition of the same thing; that there was nothing new either in me or in in; and that, on the contrary, we kept going back as it were on what was old. - Leo Tolstoy
But the law of loving others could not be discovered by reason, because it is unreasonable. - Leo Tolstoy
The only thing that we know is that we know nothing and that is the highest flight of human wisdom. - Leo Tolstoy
I would rather excel in the knowledge of what is excellent, than in the extent of my power and possessions.
It were better to have no opinion of God at all than such a one as is unworthy of him; for the one is only belief - the other contempt.
Architecture has recorded the great ideas of the human race. Not only every religious symbol, but every human thought has its page in that vast book. - Victor Hugo
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