7 Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes on History

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe quotes on history

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

45. Tell me you stones, O speak, you towering palaces! Streets, say a word! Spirit of this place, are you dumb? All things are alive in your sacred walls Eternal Rome, it's only for me all is still.

76. Alles Gescheite ist schon gedacht worden. Man muss nur versuchen, es noch einmal zu denken.

79. What wise or stupid thing can man conceive That was not thought of in ages long ago?

92. All intelligent thoughts have already been thought; what is necessary is only to try to think them again.

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

148. We lay aside letters never to read them again, and at last we destroy them out of discretion, and so disappears the most beautiful, the most immediate breath of life, irrecoverable for ourselves and for others.