Von

Famous quotes containing the word von:

    So as to comprehend that the sky is blue everywhere one doesn’t need to travel around the world.
    —Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe (1749–1832)

    If one mistreats citizens of foreign countries, one infringes upon one’s duty toward one’s own subjects; for thus one exposes them to the law of retribution.
    —Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe (1749–1832)

    Everything perfect in its kind has to transcend its own kind, it must become something different and incomparable. In some notes the nightingale is still a bird; then it rises above its class and seems to suggest to every winged creature what singing is truly like.
    —Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe (1749–1832)