James

“To be loved for what one is, that is the greatest exception. The great majority love in others only what they lend him; their own selves, their version of him.”
― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“Let mental culture go on advancing, let the natural sciences progress in even greater extent and depth, and the human mind widen itself as much as it desires: beyond the elevation and moral culture of Christianity, as it shines forth in the Gospels, it will not go.”
― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“[W]hat counts is that one perceives excellence and dares to give it expression, which sounds little but is in fact a great deal.”
― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“I wait for the morning of my tears.”
― Goethe Johann-Wolfga