Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes About Country

• I have never looked at foreign countries or gone there but with the purpose of getting to know the general human qualities that are spread all over the earth in very different forms, and then to find these qualities again in my own country and to recognize and to further them.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Country, Travel, Quality

• Go to foreign countries and you will get to know the good things one possesses at home.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Country, Gratitude, Home

• You acquire a language most readily in the country where it is spoken; you study mineralogy best among miners; and so with everything else.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Country, Study, Language

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, John Stuart Blackie (1883). “The Wisdom of Goethe”, Edinburgh, W. Blackwood

• Nothing can be compared to the new life that the discovery of another country provides for a thoughtful person. Although I am still the same I believe to have changed to the bones.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Country, Believe, Thoughtful

• Go to the place where the thing you wish to know is native; your best teacher is there. Where the thing you wish to know is so dominant that you must breathe its very atmosphere, there teaching is moat thorough, and learning is most easy. You acquire a language most readily in the country where it is spoken; you study mineralogy boat among miners; and so with everything else.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Country, Teacher, Teaching

• You will find the most pronounced hatred of other nations on the lowest cultural levels. There is, though, a level where the hatred disappears completely and where one so to speak stands above the nations and where one experiences fortune or misfortune of a neighboring country as if they had happened to one's own.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Country, Disappear Completely, Hatred

• If one doesn't know one's own country, one doesn't have standards for foreign countries.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Country, Standards, Knows

• If one mistreats citizens of foreign countries, one infringes upon one's duty toward one's own subjects; for thus one exposes themto the law of retribution.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Country, Law, Citizens

• 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 proud, and here have a consciousness of superiority to many.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Country, Pride, Color

• No one feels himself easy in a garden which does not look like the open country.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Country, Garden, Doe

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (2013). “Delphi Works of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (Illustrated)”, p.791, Delphi Classics

• Whoever would understand the poet
  Must go into the poet's country.
  [Ger., Wer den Dichter will verstehen
  Muss in Dichters Lande gehen.]

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Country, Poet, Dens

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