He who cannot draw on three thousand years is living from hand to mouth.
Weitere Zitate von Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Zum Autor"Here too it’s masquerade, I find: As everywhere, the dance of mind.I grasped a lovely masked procession,And caught things from a horror show…I’d gladly settle for a false impression,If it would last a little longer, though."
"Most people work the greater part of their time for a mere living and the little freedom which remains to them so troubles them that they use every means of getting rid of it."
"Du hast so viele Leben, wie du Sprachen sprichst. (You have as many lives as the number of languages you speak.)."
"Each one sees what he carries in his heart."
"Anything in the world can be endured, except a series of wonderful days."
"Classicism is health, romanticisim is sickness."