Dear friend, all theory is gray, And green the golden tree of life.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe · Faust. The First Part. Mephistopheles and the Student

The deed is all, and not the glory.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe · The source reads: “Die Tat ist alles, nichts der Ruhm. The deed is all, and not the glory.”

More light!

Attributed to Johann Wolfgang von Goethe · The source reads: “Mehr Licht! More light!”

I sing as the bird sings That lives in the boughs.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe · Wilhelm Meister’s Apprenticeship (1786–1830), bk. II, ch. 11

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Men act and women appear. Men look at women. Women watch themselves being looked at.

John Berger · Ways of Seeing (1972), ch. 3

There is no man so good that if he placed all his actions and thoughts under the scrutiny of the laws, he would not deserve hanging ten times in his life.

Michel de Montaigne · Essays, III, 9

The truth doesn't fit into one heart, into one mind; truth is somehow splintered.

Svetlana Alexievich · The source reads: “It always troubled me that the truth doesn't fit into one heart, into one mind, that truth is somehow splintered. There's a lot of it, it is varied, and it is strewn about the world.” · Nobel Lecture (2015)

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“Dear friend, all theory is gray, And green the golden tree of life.”

“The deed is all, and not the glory.”

“More light!”

“I sing as the bird sings That lives in the boughs.”

“Men act and women appear. Men look at women. Women watch themselves being looked at.”

“There is no man so good that if he placed all his actions and thoughts under the scrutiny of the laws, he would not deserve hanging ten times in his life.”

“The truth doesn't fit into one heart, into one mind; truth is somehow splintered.”