Goethe

Famous quotes containing the word goethe:

“If we take people only as they are, then we make them worse; if we treat them as if they were what they should be, then we bring them to where they can be brought.”
—Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe (1749–1832)

“Paternity is based anyhow only upon conviction: I am convinced, therefore, I am the father.”
—Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe (1749–1832)

“Certain books seem to have been written not for the purpose that we learn something from them but that we know that the author was a knowledgeable person.”
—Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe (1749–1832)