Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes About History
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We can stand only a certain amount of unhappiness; anything beyond that annihilates us or passes us by, leaving us apathethetic.
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The work of art may have a moral effect, but to demand moral purpose from the artist is to make him ruin his work.
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He who cannot draw on three thousand years is living from hand to mouth.
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I can promise to be sincere, but I cannot promise to be impartial.
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Writing history is a method of getting rid of the past.
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We all of us live upon the past, and through the past we are destroyed.
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All the knowledge I possess everyone else can acquire, but my heart is all my own.
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The best government is that which teaches us to govern ourselves.
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Sin writes histories, goodness is silent. [Ger., Das Uebel macht eine Geschichte und das Gute keine.]
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The best benefit we derive from history is the enthusiasm it excites.
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The deepest, the only theme of human history, compared to which all others are of subordinate importance, is the conflict of skepticism with faith.
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The thinker makes a great mistake when he asks after cause and effect. They both together make up the indivisible phenomenon.
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All our knowledge is symbolic.
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Every situation--nay, every moment--is of infinite worth; for it is the representative of a whole eternity.
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Not all that is presented to us as history has really happened; and what really happened did not actually happen the way it is presented to us; moreover, what really happened is only a small part of all that happened. Everything in history remains uncertain, the largest events as well as the smallest occurrence.
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The history of mankind is his character.
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Sin writes histories, goodness is silent.
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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
- Born: August 28, 1749
- Died: March 22, 1832
- Occupation: Writer
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