Crusade Quote by Desmond Seward

“Whatever you can do, or dream you can, begin it— Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it. —Goethe”

— Anonymous

“Whatever you can do or think you can begin it; boldness has genius, power and magic in it. Goethe.”

— Nesta Tuomey

“Yet how could I not have believed Hitler a genius and unique when every day I saw and heard how the major personalities of…

— Heinz Linge

I have learned a deep respect for one of Goethe's couplets: "Whatever you can do or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius,…

— W. H. Murray

“What elevates one and not another to the level of genius is not only talent and ambition and luck, but a gift for turning…

— Jan Swafford

“Even in the early nineteenth century, people like Goethe had little good to say about grumbling, coarsely behaved nationalist romantics of the Arndt or…

— Götz Aly

Ah, a German and a genius ! A prodigy, admit him !

— Jonathan Swift

“Nevertheless, let no one boast. Just as every man, though he be the greatest genius, has very definite limitations in some one sphere of…

— Arthur Schopenhauer

The Germans are incapable of any conception of greatness: proof Schumann.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Our country, customs, laws, our ambitions, and our notions of fit and fair-all these we never made; we found them ready-made; we but quote…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“It is one of the great examples,” as Friedrich Meinecke, the eminent German historian, said, “of the singular and incalculable power of personality in…

— William L. Shirer

“... nothing is easier than to distance ourselves from great figures, whether through a negative interpretation or through idealization. Denigration and idealization are twins…

— Myron Sharaf