“Moreover I hate everything which merely instructs me without increasing or directly quickening my activity.”
“Moreover I hate everything which merely instructs me without increasing or directly quickening my activity.”
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“15"General ideas and great conceit are always a fair way to bring about terrible misfortune.”
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Criticisms, Reflections and Maxims of Goethe“There is nothing in which people more betray their character than in what they find to laugh at.”
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Elective Affinities“Des Menschen Kraft, im Dichter offenbartThe human power is revealed by poetIl potere dell'umanità si rivela nel poeta”
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe“The world is so empty if one thinks only of mountains, rivers & cities; but to know someone who thinks & feels with us, & who, though distant, is close to us in spirit, this makes the earth for us an inhabited garden.”
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe“The limits of my language are the limits of my universe.”
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe“By Fortune's adverse buffets overborneTo solitude I fled, to wilds forlorn,And not in utter loneliness to live,Myself at last did to the Devil give!”
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Faust“If I wasn't a devil myself I'd give Me up to the Devil this very minute.”
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Faust“My father, my father, and dost thou not hearThe words that the Erl-King now breathes in mine ear?'Be calm, dearest child, 'tis thy fancy deceives;Tis the sad wind that sighs through the withering leaves.”
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