12 Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes on Culture

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe quotes on culture

3. If you inquire what the people are like here, I must answer, 'The same as everywhere!'

29. Amerika, du hast es besser-als unser Kontinent, das alte.

37. 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.

40. Seeking with the soul the land of the Greeks.

53. 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.

71. A true German can't stand the French, Yet willingly he drinks their wines.

94. Of all peoples the Greeks have dreamt the dream of life best.

130. [Prague is the] prettiest gem in the stone crown of the world...

135. 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.

138. The decline in literature indicates a decline in the nation. The two keep pace in their downward tendency.

140. The phrases that men hear or repeat continually, end by becoming convictions and ossify the organs of intelligence.

145. To have seen Italy without having seen Sicily is not to have seen Italy at all, for Sicily is the clue to everything.