Goethe Quotes

“In me there are two souls, alas, and their Division tears my life in two. One loves the world, it clutches her, it binds Itself to her, clinging with furious lust; The other longs to soar beyond the dust Into the realm of high ancestral minds. (lines 1102–7)”
― Ritchie Robertson, Goethe: A Very Short Introduction

“Art imitates nature, but does not copy it.”
― Ritchie Robertson, Goethe: A Very Short Introduction

“human beings are very narcissistic, they like to see themselves everywhere and be the foil for the rest of creation’ (I, iv).”
― Ritchie Robertson, Goethe: A Very Short Introduction