Quote #21
One must be something in order to do something.
More from Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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- If I work incessantly to the last, nature owes me another form of existence when the present one collapses.
- Should I not be proud, when for twenty years I have had to admit to myself that the great Newton and all the mathematicians and noble calcu…
- Ich die Baukunst eine erstarrte Musik nenne.
- For I have been a man, and that means to have been a fighter.
- The artist may be well advised to keep his work to himself till it is completed, because no one can readily help him or advise him with it.…
- Who wants to understand the poem Must go to the land of poetry; Who wishes to understand the poet Must go to the poet's land.
- Willst du immer weiterschweifen? Sieh, das Gute liegt so nah. Lerne nur das Gluck ergreifen, denn das Gluck ist immer da.