1774 · Skopia

Showing 12 quotes from 1774

Play · Tragedy (play) · Tragedy

One lives but once in this world.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Clavigo · 1774

★ 7.1

Novel · Epistolary novel

If you inquire what the people are like here, I must answer, "The same as everywhere!"

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

The Sorrows of Young Werther · 1774

★ 5.5

Novel · Epistolary novel

I have so much in me, and the feeling for her absorbs it all; I have so much, and without her it all comes to nothing.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

The Sorrows of Young Werther · 1774

★ 3.8

Novel · Epistolary novel

No one is willing to believe that adults too, like children, wander about this earth in a daze and, like children, do not know where they come from or where they are going, act as rarely as they do according to genuine motives, and are as thoroughly governed as they are by biscuits and cake and the rod.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

The Sorrows of Young Werther · 1774

★ 3.7

Speech · Political speech

Your representative owes you, not his industry only, but his judgement; and he betrays, instead of serving you, if he sacrifices it to your opinion.

1774

★ 3.6

Art in its perfection is not ostentatious; it lies hid, and works its effect itself unseen.

Joshua Reynolds

1774

★ 3.5

In the deep windings of the grove, no more The hag obscene, and the grisly phantom dwell; Nor in the fall of mountain-stream, or roar Of winds is heard the angry spirit's yell.

1774

★ 3.5

Political literature

The God who gave us life, gave us liberty at the same time.

Thomas Jefferson

A Summary View of the Rights of British America · 1774

★ 2.2

Novel · Epistolary novel

Must it ever be thus-that the source of our happiness must also be the fountain of our misery? The full and ardent sentiment which animated my heart with the love of nature, overwhelming me with a torrent of delight, and which brought all paradise before me, has now become an insupportable torment, a demon which perpetually pursues and harrasses me.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

The Sorrows of Young Werther · 1774

★ 2.0

Novel · Epistolary novel

The human race is a monotonous affair. Most people spend the greatest part of their time working in order to live, and what little freedom remains so fills them with fear that they seek out any and every means to be rid of it.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

The Sorrows of Young Werther · 1774

★ 2.0

Personal journal

Ambition leads me not only farther than any other man has been before me, but as far as I think it possible for man to go.

1774

★ 1.9

The mind is but a barren soil; is a soil which is soon exhausted, and will produce no crop, or only one, unless it be continually fertilized and enriched with foreign matter.

Joshua Reynolds

1774

★ 1.8