Quotes about Goethe

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The world is so empty if one thinks only of mountains, rivers & cities; but to know someone who thinks & feels with us, — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Whatever you can do or dream you can, begin it.Boldness has genius, power and magic in it! — John Anster, The First Part of Goethe's Faust
Art is bad when ‘you see the intent and get put off.’ (Goethe) In Tolstoy one is unaware of the intent, and sees only th — Joel Carmichael
Faustus, who embraced evil and shunned righteousness, became the foremost symbol of the misuse of free will, that sublim — E.A. Bucchianeri, Faust: My Soul Be Damned for the World Volume 1
A man must be a Salomon before his magical ring will work — Idries Shah, The Way of the Sufi
The limits of my language are the limits of my universe. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
When we treat people merely as they are, they will remain as they are. When we treat them as if they were what they shou — Thomas S. Monson, Pathways To Perfection: Discourses Of Thomas S. Monson
We are all pilgrims who seek Italy. — 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 — 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
A man's shortcomings are taken from his epoch — his virtues and greatness belong to himself.
Read this book ... but understand it’s fiction. And let life be ... your most important addiction. — John Zelazny, The Sorrows of Young Mike
There is nothing in which people more betray their character than in what they find to laugh at. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Elective Affinities
... the vintage of history is forever repeating ~ same old vines, same old wines! — E.A. Bucchianeri, Faust: My Soul be Damned for the World, Vol. 2
You yourself are your own barrier – rise from within it. — Idries Shah, The Way of the Sufi
Des Menschen Kraft, im Dichter offenbartThe human power is revealed by poetIl potere dell'umanità si rivela nel poeta — 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
In all things it is better to hope than to despair. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
I myself must also say I believe it is true that in the end humanitarianism will triumph — only I fear that at the same time the world will be one big hospital and each person will be the other person's humane keeper.
Dandies, who – as you know - scorn all emotions as being beneath them, and do not believe, like that simpleton Goethe, t — Jules Barbey d'Aurevilly, The Crimson Curtain