Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes on Culture
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If you inquire what the people are like here, I must answer, 'The same as everywhere!'
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Amerika, du hast es besser-als unser Kontinent, das alte.
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One ought, every day at least, to hear a little song, read a good poem, see a fine picture, and, if it were possible, to speak a few reasonable words.
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Seeking with the soul the land of the Greeks.
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Much there is I can stand. Most things not easy to suffer I bear with quiet resolve, just as a God commands it. Only a few things I find as repugnant as snakes and poison. These four: tobacco smoke, bedbugs and garlic and Christ.
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A true German can't stand the French, Yet willingly he drinks their wines.
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Of all peoples the Greeks have dreamt the dream of life best.
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[Prague is the] prettiest gem in the stone crown of the world...
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The effects of good music are not just because it's new; on the contrary music strikes us more the more familiar we are with it.
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The decline in literature indicates a decline in the nation. The two keep pace in their downward tendency.
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The phrases that men hear or repeat continually, end by becoming convictions and ossify the organs of intelligence.
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To have seen Italy without having seen Sicily is not to have seen Italy at all, for Sicily is the clue to everything.