Sometimes when reading Goethe I have the paralyzing suspicion that he is trying to be funny.
Sometimes when reading Goethe I have the paralyzing suspicion that he is trying to be funny.
Science does not know its debt to imagination. Goethe did not believe that a great naturalist could exist without this faculty.
It is impossible to imagine Goethe or Beethoven being good at billiards or golf.
We Germans will never produce another Goethe, but we may produce another Caesar.
All is fish that comes to the literary net. Goethe puts his joys and sorrows into poems, I turn my adventures into bread and butter.
When they learn of Shakespeare and Goethe, we must teach them of Pushkin and Dumas.... Whatever the white man has done, we have done, and often better.
Close thy Byron open thy 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.
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