Mary > Mary's Quotes

“Now I find my good men
Are gathered in the night
To wait in silence, not to sleep
And the glorious word of liberty
They whisper and murmur
Till in unaccustomed strangeness
On the steps of our temper
Once again in delight they cry
Freedom! Freedom!”
― Goethe

“Insofar as he makes use of his healthy senses, man himself is the best and most exact scientific instrument possible. The greatest misfortune of modern physics is that its experiments have been set apart from man, as it were, physics refuses to recognize nature in anything not shown by artificial instruments, and even uses this as a measure of its accomplishments.”
― Goethe

“Publishers are all cohorts of the devil; there must be a special hell for them somewhere.”
― Goethe

“Närrisch, dass jeder in seinem Falle
Seine besondere Meinung preist!
Wenn Islam Gott ergeben heißt,
Im Islam leben und sterben wir alle!”
― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“Whatever you cannot understand, you cannot possess. ”
― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“There is nothing more frightful than ignorance in action.”
― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Collected Works

“If I love you, what business is it of yours?”
― Johann wolfgang von Goethe

“Remember to live.”
― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“Everything is hard before it is easy”
― Goethe J.W.