Goethe

Famous quotes containing the word goethe:

“For precisely when concepts fail one,
Words are found at the right time.”
—Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe (1749–1832)

“Words express neither objects nor ourselves.”
—Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe (1749–1832)

“One criticizes the English for carrying their teapots wherever they go, even lugging them up Mount Etna. But doesn’t every nation have its teapot, in which, even when traveling, it brews the dried bundles of herbs brought from home?”
—Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe (1749–1832)