Goethe Quotes

“The hardworking poor should receive wages and bread.”
― Rüdiger Safranski, Goethe: Life as a Work of Art

“And since he was unable to give him any form, he would honor him with his works: Natural products were to be a simile for the world, and above them would burn a flame symbolizing the spirit of man, yearning upwards toward its maker.”
― Rüdiger Safranski, Goethe: Life as a Work of Art

“I had really lost her, and the madness with which I avenged my mistakes on myself, by assaulting my physical self in several senseless ways in order to punish my moral self, contributed very much to the bodily ills under which I lost some of the best years of my life.”
― Rüdiger Safranski, Goethe: Life as a Work of Art