Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes About Language
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Go to the place where the thing you wish to know is native; your best teacher is there. Where the thing you wish to know is so dominant that you must breathe its very atmosphere, there teaching is moat thorough, and learning is most easy. You acquire a language most readily in the country where it is spoken; you study mineralogy boat among miners; and so with everything else.
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A man who is ignorant of foreign languages is also ignorant of his own language.
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When translating one must proceed up to the intranslatable; only then one becomes aware of the foreign nation and the foreign tongue.
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What must the English and French think of the language of our philosophers when we Germans do not understand it ourselves?
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The force of a language does not consist of rejecting what is foreign but of swallowing it.
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Mathematicians are like Frenchmen: whatever you say to them they translate into their own language and forthwith it is something entirely different.
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He who knows no foreign languages knows nothing of his own.
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He who does not know foreign languages does not know anything about his own.
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Because everyone uses language to talk, everyone thinks he can talk about language.
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I curse all negative purism that tells me not to use a word from another language that either expresses something that my own language cannot or does that in a more delicate manner.
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Wer fremde Sprachen nicht kennt, weiss nichts von seiner eigenen.He who is ignorant of foreign languages, knows not his own.
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Those who know nothing of foreign languages know nothing of their own.
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You acquire a language most readily in the country where it is spoken; you study mineralogy best among miners; and so with everything else.
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If you don't know foreign languages, you don't know anything about your own.
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Die Mathematiker sind eine Art Franzosen. Spricht man zu ihnen, so übersetzen sie alles in ihre eigene Sprache, und so wird es alsobald etwas ganz anderes. Mathematicians are a kind of Frenchmen. Whenever you say anything or talk to them, they translate it into their own language, and right away it is something completely different.
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All of us, just because we are able to talk, also believe we are able to talk about language.
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