Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Elements Quotations

Die Zeit ist selbst ein Element. Time is itself an element.

I have come to the frightening conclusion that I am the decisive element. It is my personal approach that creates the climate.

Time itself is an element.

The society of women is the element of good manners.

I am the spirit that negates. And rightly so, for all that comes to be Deserves to perish wretchedly; 'Twere better nothing would begin. Thus everything that that your terms, sin, Destruction, evil represent— That is my proper element.

Humor is one of the elements of genius--admirable as an adjunct; but as soon as it becomes dominant, only a surrogate for genius.