Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: Zitate auf Englisch (seite 10)
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe war deutscher Dichter und Dramatiker. Zitate auf Englisch.“Encourage the beautiful, the useful will take care of itself.”
widely attributed to Goethe without citation from the works of Goethe
Disputed
Last words, as quoted in The Medico-chirurgical Review and Journal of Medical Science, Vol. 24 (1834), p. 501 [He apparently, here, asking for the shutters to be opened to admit more light, nothing more.]
Original: (de) Mehr Licht!
“I know a little of navigation: / War, trade, and piracy, allow, / As three in one, no separation.”
Quelle: Faust, Part 2 (1832), Act V, Scene 3