Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes About Animals

• One must ask children and birds how cherries and strawberries taste.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Summer, Nature, Children

• Zweck sein selbst ist jegliches Tier.
  Each animal is an end in itself.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Animal, Evolution, Ends

• Energy will do anything that can be done in the world; and no talents, no circumstances, no opportunities will make a two-legged animal a man without it.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Animal, Opportunity, Men

• He who serves the public is a poor animal; he worries himself to death and no one thanks him for it.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Animal, Worry, Thanks

  "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations". Compiled by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt and Kate Louise Roberts, 1922.

• Animals, we have been told, are taught by their organs. Yes, I would add, and so are men, but men have this further advantage that they can also teach their organs in return.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Animal, Men, Add

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