Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes About Violence

• The best genius is that which absorbs and assimilates everything without doing the least violence to its fundamental destiny.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Destiny, Violence, Attention

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (2012). “The Goethe Treasury: Selected Prose and Poetry”, p.12, Courier Corporation

• The whole history of the Christian Church is a mixture of errors and violence.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Christian, Atheist, Errors

• Every decided colour does a certain violence to the eye, and forces the organ to opposition.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Eye, Light, Doe

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (2012). “Theory of Colours”, p.14, Courier Corporation

• It is as certain as it is strange that truth and error come from one and the same source. Thus it is that we are often not at liberty to do violence to error, because at the same time we do violence to truth.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Truth, Errors, Liberty

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (2015). “Maxims and Reflections”, p.73, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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