Goethe Language Quotes
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Goethe Language Quotes & Sayings
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When translating one must proceed up to the intranslatable; only then one becomes aware of the foreign nation and the foreign tongue.
— Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
Because everyone uses language to talk, everyone thinks they can talk about language.
— Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
When in doubt, make funny faces.
— Amy Poehler
If you don't know foreign languages, you don't know anything about your own.
— Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
What must the English and French think of the language of our philosophers when we Germans do not understand it ourselves?
— Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
He who does not know foreign languages does not know anything about his own.
— Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
Mathematicians are like Frenchmen: whatever you say to them they translate into their own language and forthwith it is something entirely different.
— Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
The limits of my language are the limits of my universe.
— Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
A man who is ignorant of foreign languages is also ignorant of his own language.
— Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
When one is polite in German, one lies.
— Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
be aggressive, BE-BE Aggressive! B-E A-G-G-R-E-S-S-I-V-E — Laurie Halse Anderson
All of us, just because we are able to talk, also believe we are able to talk about language.
— Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
The force of a language does not consist of rejecting what is foreign but of swallowing it.
— Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
Mathematicians are a kind of Frenchman. They translate into their own language whatever is said to them and forthwith the thing is utterly changed.
— Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
Du hast so viele Leben, wie du Sprachen sprichst. (You have as many lives as the number of languages you speak.)
— Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
When I miss things or let them pass they gather in a heap then rise up and take a life. So, I try not to.
— Louise Penny
Memory is fiction. We select the brightest and the darkest, ignoring what we are ashamed of, and so embroider the broad tapestry of our lives.
— Isabel Allende
