Quotes About Goethe Language

#1. Because everyone uses language to talk, everyone thinks they can talk about language.

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

#2. 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.

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

#3. When one is polite in German, one lies.

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

#4. The mild wind made the trees sway gently, in a lullaby rhythm, and the resultant susurration was like the soft sighs and dreamy murmurs of a thousand peacefully slumbering children.

Dean Koontz

#5. No principle is worth the sacrifice of a single human being.

Daniel Berrigan

#6. When you reach a certain level, you live in a bubble when all you think, dream and breathe is becoming the best athlete in the world.

Katarina Witt

#7. History is filled with fictional people.

Robyn Schneider

#8. A man who is ignorant of foreign languages is also ignorant of his own language.

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

#9. My parents came from different backgrounds. My father's was grander than my mother's, so my mother had ... to put up with the disapproval of my father's relations.

Julian Fellowes

#10. If you don't know foreign languages, you don't know anything about your own.

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

#11. The idea comes before the logical argument.

Gerald Abrahams

#12. That's not a good idea.

Colleen Hoover

#13. Mathematicians are like Frenchmen: whatever you say to them they translate into their own language and forthwith it is something entirely different.

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

#14. Mathematicians are a kind of Frenchman. They translate into their own language whatever is said to them and forthwith the thing is utterly changed.

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

#15. The force of a language does not consist of rejecting what is foreign but of swallowing it.

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

#16. Du hast so viele Leben, wie du Sprachen sprichst. (You have as many lives as the number of languages you speak.)

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

#17. All of us, just because we are able to talk, also believe we are able to talk about language.

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

#18. When a manufacturing engineer is hired to create new products but insists on sharing his "wisdom" in accounting with the company controller, he is not going to last long in that company.

Chin-Ning Chu

#19. He who does not know foreign languages does not know anything about his own.

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

#20. The limits of my language are the limits of my universe.

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

#21. Suicide carried off many. Drink and the devil took care of the rest

Robert Louis Stevenson

#22. What must the English and French think of the language of our philosophers when we Germans do not understand it ourselves?

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

#23. How much of a book review is about the reviewer? Sometimes it's mostly about the reviewer!

Kathryn Harrison

#24. When translating one must proceed up to the intranslatable; only then one becomes aware of the foreign nation and the foreign tongue.

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe