Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes about History
The best government is that which teaches us to govern ourselves.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (2015). “Maxims and Reflections”, p.99, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
I can promise to be sincere, but I cannot promise to be impartial.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (19??). “Gleams From..: Being Passages Selected and Translated from the Prose Writings of Goethe and from His Converstaions with Eckermann”
"Mitteilungen ueber GoetheBo". Book by Friedrich Wilhelm Riemer, II. 9, 1810.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1897). “Criticisms, reflections, and maxims of Goethe: Tr., with an introduction”
We all of us live upon the past, and through the past we are destroyed.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, W. B. Rönnfeldt (1898*). “Goethe's Criticisms, Reflections, and Maxims”