Top 24 Quotes About Goethe Language
#1. 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
#2. 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
#3. How much of a book review is about the reviewer? Sometimes it's mostly about the reviewer!
Kathryn Harrison
#4. 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
#8. 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
#10. 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
#12. 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
#17. 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
#20. 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
#21. No principle is worth the sacrifice of a single human being.
Daniel Berrigan
#22. 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
#24. 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