Conversations with Goethe in the last years of his life
- Kind
- Book
- Date
- 1839
- Retrieved
- May 29, 2012
- ISBN
- Yi0HAAAAQA
2 memes from this reference
Goethe on Poetry and Science
As for what I have done as a poet, I take no pride in whatever. Excellent poets have lived at the same time with me, poets more excellent lived before me, and others will come after me. But that in my country I am the only person who knows the truth in the difficult science of colors-of that, I say, I am not a little…
Most People Only Care About Making Money from Science
I could never have known so well how paltry men are, and how little they care for really high aims, if I had not tested them by my scientific researches. Thus I saw that most men only care for science so far as they get a living by it, and that they worship even error when it affords them a subsistence.