Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes About Parties

• Mathematics can remove no prejudices and soften no obduracy. It has no influence in sweetening the bitter strife of parties, and in the moral world generally its action is perfectly null.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Party, Prejudice, Null

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

• If a poet would work politically, he must give himself up to a party; and so soon as he does that, he is lost as a poet.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Party, Giving, Doe

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Johann Peter Eckermann, Frédéric Jacob Soret (1850). “Conversations of Goethe with Eckermann and Soret”, p.427

• I hate all explanations; they who make them deceive either themselves or the other party,-generally both.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Hate, Party, Deceit

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

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