Goethe

Famous quotes containing the word goethe:

“We gladly put antiquity above our age but not posterity. Only a father doesn’t begrudge his son’s talent.”
—Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe (1749–1832)

“Neither a work of nature nor one of art we get to know when they have been finished; we must surprise them in the process of being created so as to understand them to some degree.”
—Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe (1749–1832)

“It is day still, you better get busy!
Night will intrude when no one can be active.”
—Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe (1749–1832)