Goethe

Famous quotes containing the word goethe:

“Thinking is more interesting than knowledge but not than looking.”
—Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe (1749–1832)

“The most damaging prejudice consists of banning any kind of investigation of nature.”
—Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe (1749–1832)

““O father! O father! now, now, keep your hold,
The Erl-King has seized me—his grasp is so cold!

Sore trembled the father; he spurr’d thro’ the wild,
Clasping close to his bosom his shuddering child;
He reaches his dwelling in doubt and in dread,
But, clasp’d to his bosom, the infant was dead.”
—Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe (1799–1832)