Goethe

Famous quotes containing the word goethe:

    “We know that a man can read Goethe or Rilke in the evening, that he can play Bach and Schubert, and go to his day’s work at Auschwitz in the morning.”
    —George Steiner (b. 1929)

    “I’ve studied now Philosophy
    And Jurisprudence, Medicine—
    And even, alas! Theology—
    From end to end with labor keen;
    And here, poor fool! with all my lore
    I stand, no wiser than before.”
    —Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe (1749–1832)

    “Paternity is based anyhow only upon conviction: I am convinced, therefore, I am the father.”
    —Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe (1749–1832)