Famous quotes containing the words wolfgang von goethe, von goethe, wolfgang von, wolfgang, von and/or goethe:
“What is predestination? Answer: God is more powerful and wiser than we are, therefore he deals with us according to his pleasure.”
—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)
“The question “From where does the poet get it?” addresses only the what, nobody learns anything about the how when asking that question.”
—Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe (1749–1832)
“More light!
[Mehr Licht!]”
—Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe (1749–1832)
“Nature is so perfect that the Trinity couldn’t have fashioned her any more perfect. She is an organ on which our Lord plays and the devil works the bellows.”
—Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe (1749–1832)
“While Man’s desires and aspirations stir,
He cannot choose but err.”
—Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe (1749–1832)