Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe, Maxims And Reflections Quotes

Those who know nothing of foreign languages know nothing of their own.

For in music there is no material to be deducted.

We look back on our life as a thing of broken pieces, because our mistakes and failures are always the first to strike us, and outweigh in our imagination what we have accomplished and attained.

Legislators and revolutionaries who promise equality and liberty at the same time, are either psychopaths or mountebanks.

Whatever liberates our spirit without giving us mastery over ourselves is destructive.