Famous quotes containing the words wolfgang von goethe, von goethe, wolfgang von, wolfgang, von and/or goethe:
“The deed is everything, the glory naught.”
—Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe (1749–1832)
“We are pantheists as natural scientists, polytheists as poets, and monotheists as moral beings.”
—Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe (1749–1832)
“What right those who govern have to govern they don’t question, they just govern. Whether the people have a right to depose them that doesn’t concern them. All they are concerned with is that the people will not be tempted to depose them.”
—Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe (1749–1832)
“The world is for thousands a freak show; the images flicker past and vanish; the impressions remain flat and unconnected in the soul. Thus they are easily led by the opinions of others, are content to let their impressions be shuffled and rearranged and evaluated differently.”
—Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe (1749–1832)
“I have never looked at foreign countries or gone there but with the purpose of getting to know the general human qualities that are spread all over the earth in very different forms, and then to find these qualities again in my own country and to recognize and to further them.”
—Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe (1749–1832)
“The one who acts is always without conscience; nobody has a conscience but the contemplative person.”
—Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe (1749–1832)