Goethe Quotes

39 quotes by 35 authors

Goethe said there would be little left of him if he were to discard what he owed to others. — Charlotte Saunders Cushman
I don't know what motivated the artist, which means that the paintings have an intrinsic quality. I think Goethe called it the 'essential dimension,' the… — Gerhard Richter
I like being old, even if the names I hear are more and more unfamiliar. Maybe, to paraphrase Goethe who said that, "Youth is wasted… — Wolf Kahn
Not like Homer would I write, Not like Dante if I might, Not like Shakespeare at his best, Not like Goethe or the rest, Like… — William Allingham
It is impossible to imagine Goethe or Beethoven being good at billiards or golf. — H. L. Mencken
We know that a man can read Goethe or Rilke in the evening, that he can play Bach and Schubert, and go to his day's… — George Steiner
I always thought old age would be a writerâ€™s best chance. Whenever I read the late work of Goethe or W. B. Yeats I had… — Samuel Beckett
Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Willing is not enough; we must do."- Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe — Anthony Bourdain
It is ever true that he who does nothing for others, does nothing for himself." ~ Goethe — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
But Goethe tells us in his greatest poem that Faust lost the liberty of his soul when he said to the passing moment: "Stay, thou… — John F. Kennedy
Man will become immeasurably stronger, wiser, and subtler; his body will become more harmonious, his movements more rhythmic, his voice more musical. The forms of… — Leon Trotsky
Aeschylus and Plato are remembered today long after the triumphs of Imperial Athens are gone. Dante outlived the ambitions of thirteenth century Florence. Goethe stands… — John F. Kennedy
From the beginning, about the rude altar of the god, to the days of Goethe, of Leopardi, and of Victor Hugo, the poet is the… — George Edward Woodberry
Music is the same to me as it was to Goethe - a pleasant noise. I am an eye man, not an ear man. — Fritz Lang
LORE, n. Learning --particularly that sort which is not derived from a regular course of instruction but comes of the reading of occult books, or… — Ambrose Bierce
Beauty is primeval phenomenon, which itself never makes its appearance, but the reflection of which is visible in a thousand different utterance of the creative… — Aroha Janet
I admire Goethe as one of the smartest and wisest men of all time — Albert Einstein
Goethe said, 'Talent is developed in privacy, ' you know?And it's really true. There is a need for aloneness which I don't think most people… — Marilyn Monroe
Shawn, these are qtoues I needed to hear at this time, in my new chapter in this life. I am standing on the edge of… — Anderson

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