Quotes Tagged With :goethe

There is nothing in which people more betray their character than in what they find to laugh at.

By Fortune's adverse buffets overborneTo solitude I fled, to wilds forlorn,And not in utter loneliness....

Art is bad when ‘you see the intent and get put off.’ (Goethe) In Tolstoy one is unaware of the intent,....

... the vintage of history is forever repeating ~ same old vines, same old wines!

Upon the publication of Goethe’s epic drama, the Faustian legend had reached an almost unapproachable....

15"General ideas and great conceit are always a fair way to bring about terrible misfortune.

Dandies, who – as you know - scorn all emotions as being beneath them, and do not believe, like that....

Whatever you can do or dream you can, begin it.Boldness has genius, power and magic in it!

Des Menschen Kraft, im Dichter offenbartThe human power is revealed by poetIl potere dell'umanità si....

Faustus, who embraced evil and shunned righteousness, became the foremost symbol of the misuse of free....