Goethe

Famous quotes containing the word goethe:

“All of us, just because we are able to talk, also believe we are able to talk about language.”
—Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe (1749–1832)

“We know that a man can read Goethe or Rilke in the evening, that he can play Bach and Schubert, and go to his day’s work at Auschwitz in the morning.”
—George Steiner (b. 1929)

“Are we not also married to conscience which we would love to get rid of often enough since it is more bothersome than a man or a woman ever could become?”
—Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe (1749–1832)