All theory, dear friend, is grey, but the golden tree of actual life springs ever green. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
All theory, dear friend, is grey, but the golden tree of actual life springs ever green.
In the original German
Grau, teurer Freund, ist alle Theorie, und grun des Lebens goldner Baum.
Faust · 1808
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Von Goethe, Johann Wolfgang. "Study Room." Faust, Part One, edited by David Luke. Oxford University Press, 2008.
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Von Goethe, Johann Wolfgang. "Studiezimmer [Study Room]." Faust. Eine Tragödie [Faust: A Tragedy]. Tübingen: J. G. Cotta’schen Buchhandlung, 1808.
