“Goethe had long since remarked that nationalistic feelings ‘are at their strongest and most violent where there is the lowest degree of… — A.C. Grayling Copy Share Image
All is fish that comes to the literary net. Goethe puts his joys and sorrows into poems, I turn my adventures into… — Louisa May Alcott Copy Share Image
Man will return to his origins. Goethe has finally become as squiggly as the city of his fathers. — Franz Grillparzer Copy Share Image
“15 "General ideas and great conceit are always a fair way to bring about terrible misfortune.” — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
“Night knew no bounds. Goethe, on a moonlit evening in Naples, was “overwhelmed by a feeling of infinite space.” — A. Roger Ekirch Copy Share Image
“Who rides so late through the night and wind? It's the father with his child; J.W. Goethe, Erlkönig/Erlking” — augelicht Copy Share Image
“do you know the land where the lemon-trees blossom;where the golden oranges glow in the dark foliage''.” — Maeve Binchy Copy Share Image
“Lo que habéis heredado de vuestros padres, volvedlo a ganar a pulso o no será vuestro”, dice Goethe.” — Martha Alicia Chavez Copy Share Image
“If you treat an individual as he is, he will stay as he is, but if you treat him as if he… — William R. Miller Copy Share Image
“So the restless traveler long at last for his native soil, finds his cottage in the arms of his wife, in the… — Goethe Wolfgang Copy Share Image
“How clearly I have seen my condition, yet how childishly I have acted," says Goethe's sorrowful young Werther. "How clearly I still… — Maggie Nelson Copy Share Image
“The actor's realm is that of the fleeting. Of all kinds of fame, it is known, his is the most ephemeral. At… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
“Goethe, the great nineteenth-century thinker, reportedly summed up, “You can easily judge the character of a man by how he treats those… — Simon Sinek Copy Share Image
“Treat others as if they were what they ought to be and you will help them become what they are capable of… — Mike Moore Copy Share Image
“However confused I become, I will always hold close the notion that I could find freedom. I could leave this prison if… — John Zelazny Copy Share Image
I often think of the different ways Goethe and Darwin got at evolution. Goethe had the poetic conception of it all right;… — Susan Glaspell Copy Share Image
“The great prophetic work of the modern world is Goethe’s Faust , so little appreciated among the Anglo-Saxons. Mephistopheles offers Faust unlimited… — Robert Aickman Copy Share Image
What am I then...? Everything that I have seen, heard, and observed I have collected and exploited. My works have been nourished… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
“It was the period in Germany of Goethe’s highest fame. Notwithstanding his rather condescending attitude towards patriotism he had been adopted as… — William Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
“because the only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to… — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
“Someone once told me people write down stories because they would like to forget, and those who read are those who would… — John Zelazny Copy Share Image
“Eighteenth-century German poet and philosopher, Wolfgang Von Goethe wrote: Nature understands no jesting; she is always true, always serious, always severe; she… — Verusha Singh Copy Share Image
“When conditions are such that life offers no earthly hope, somewhere somehow, men must find refuge. Then they fly from the terror… — Edith Hamilton Copy Share Image
“When the sound and wholesome nature of man acts as an entirety, when he feels himself in the world as in a… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
“Sacrifice of the self is the source of all humiliation, as also on the contrary is the foundation of all true exaltation.… — Novalis Copy Share Image
“Until one is committed, there is hesitancy, the chance to draw back. Concerning all acts of initiative (and creation), there is one… — W.H. Murray Copy Share Image
“The Prince’s name preserved, in the boldness with which its opening syllables were—to borrow an expression from music—attacked, and in the stammering… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
“He got carried away as he developed his idea: 'The aesthetic quality of towns is essential. If, as has been said, every… — Georges Rodenbach Copy Share Image
“Des Menschen Kraft, im Dichter offenbart The human power is revealed by poet Il potere dell'umanità si rivela nel poeta” — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
I have often reaped what others have sowed. My work is the work of a collective being that bears the name Goethe. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
“Sometimes when reading Goethe I have a paralyzing suspicion that he is trying to be funny.” — Guy Davenport Copy Share Image
Goethe tells us in his greatest poem that Faust lost the liberty of his soul when he said to the passing moment,… — Robert Kennedy Copy Share Image
Ask Jeeves! Who ever used that thing? College freshmen to find out who Goethe was - that's it. — Walter Kirn Copy Share Image
We Germans will never produce another Goethe, but we may produce another Caesar. — Oswald Spengler Copy Share Image
Goethe said there would be little left of him if he were to discard what he owed to others. — Charlotte Saunders Cushman Copy Share Image
I know very well what Goethe meant when he said that he never had a chagrin but he made a poem out… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
