I am the spirit that negates.
And rightly so, for all that comes to be
Deserves to perish wretchedly;
'Twere better nothing would begin.
Thus everything that that your terms, sin,
Destruction, evil represent—
That is my proper element.
Tags: evil destruction entropy everything-must-perish mephistopheles negation
Everybody wants to be somebody,but nobody wants to grow...
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheDeeply earnest and thoughtful people stand on shaky footing with the public.
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheOne should not search for anything behind the phenomena. They themselves are the message.
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheTags: phenomena
Nothing can be compared to the new life that the discovery of another country provides for a thoughtful person. Although I am still the same I believe to have changed to the bones.
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheTags: life experience change travel foreign-countries discoveries life-changing
Dream no small dreams for they have no power to move the hearts of men.
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheHe who moves not forward, goes backward.
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheTalent develops in solitude, character develops in the stream of life.
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheHe who cannot draw on three thousand years is living from hand to mouth.
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheWe lay aside letters never to read them again, and at last destroy them out of discretion, and so disappears the most beautiful, the most immediate breath of life, irrecoverably for ourselves and for others.
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheTags: letters correspondence
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