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- Sometimes when reading Goethe I have the paralyzing suspicion that he is trying to be funny. — Guy Davenport
- Dostoyevsky wrote of the unconscious as if it were conscious; that is in reality the reason why his characters seem 'pathological', while… — Edwin Muir
- The sun had, in the meanwhile, sunk behind the Ettersberg. We felt in the wood the chill of the evening, and drove… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
- Why should a lobster be any more ridiculous than a dog? ... or a cat, or a gazelle, or a lion, or… — Gerard De Nerval
- I never dreamed of being Shakespeare or Goethe, and I never expected to hold the great mirror of truth up before the… — Peter Altenberg
- India was China's teacher in religion and imaginative literature, and the world's teacher in trignometry, quandratic equations, grammar, phonetics, Arabian Nights, animal… — Lin Yutang
- The writing of histories - as Goethe once noted - is one way of getting rid of the weight of the past....… — Benedetto Croce
- Science does not know its debt to imagination. Goethe did not believe that a great naturalist could exist without this faculty. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
- My understanding – of course, I’m not a philosopher or a scientist – of an aspect of Goethe’s theory of color is… — Alex Webb
- When they learn of Shakespeare and Goethe, we must teach them of Pushkin and Dumas. . . . Whatever the white man… — Mary McLeod Bethune
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe — John Herschel
- It is a shallow criticism that would define poetry as confined to literary productions in rhyme and meter rhythm. The written poem… — John Ruskin