Daring ideas are like chessmen moved forward; they may be defeated, but they start a winning game.

More from Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

• Any time not spent in love is wasted.
• Many hammer all over the wall and believe that with each blow they hit the nail on the head.
• The world is so full of simpletons and madmen, that one need not seek them in a madhouse.
• To act is easy; to think is hard.
• It won’t be an easy journey. It’ll be long, and arduous. But I promise you one thing: on the memory of those lying here before you, we shall find it, and Earth shall become our new home. So say we all!
• Ah, but a man's reach should exceed his grasp, or what's a heaven for?