87 Quotes About Goethe

The year is dying. The wind blows across the stubble and finds there is nothing left for it to shake. Only the red berries on their slender trees still seem to want to remind us of something merrier and the beat of the thresher awakens in us the thought of how much life and nourishment lies hidden in the cut-down ear of corn.

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!

Todo nos falta cuando nos faltamos a nosotros mismos.

If I love you, is that any of your business?

Dandies, who – as you know - scorn all emotions as being beneath them, and do not believe, like that simpleton Goethe, that astonishment can ever be a proper feeling for the human mind.

15"General ideas and great conceit are always a fair way to bring about terrible misfortune.

He does not admire the merely contemplative life; like Goethe he scorns knowledge that does not lead to action: "men ought to know that in the theatre of human life it is only for Gods and angels to be spectators.

This I wanted and nothing more. In my old agelike old Goethe to stand before the face of the earth,and recognize it and reconcile itwith my work built up, a forest citadelon a river of changeable lights and brief shadows.

„Was glänzt ist für den Augenblick geboren; Das Echte bleibt der Nachwelt unverloren.