{"quotes":[{"text":"There is nothing in which people more betray their character than in what they find to laugh at.","author":"Johann Wolfgang von Goethe","tags":["character","goethe","humor"],"id":4051,"author_id":"Johann+Wolfgang+von+Goethe"},{"text":"Des Menschen Kraft, I'm Dichter offenbartThe human power is revealed by poetIl potere dell'umanità si rivela nel poeta.","author":"Johann Wolfgang von Goethe","tags":["faustus","german-poet","goethe","poetry"],"id":30381,"author_id":"Johann+Wolfgang+von+Goethe"},{"text":"We are all pilgrims who seek Italy.","author":"Johann Wolfgang von Goethe","tags":["goethe","italia","italy","pilgrims","travel","wanderlust"],"id":82210,"author_id":"Johann+Wolfgang+von+Goethe"},{"text":"Read this book ... But understand it’s fiction. And let life be ... Your most important addiction.","author":"John Zelazny","tags":["bible","goethe","king-james-bible","religion","zelazny"],"id":93538,"author_id":"John+Zelazny"},{"text":"... The vintage of history is forever repeating ~ same old vines, same old wines!","author":"E.A. Bucchianeri","tags":["faust","goethe","history","history-of-mankind","history-repeating-itself","human-nature","philosophical-humor","repetition","sad-but-true","vines","wine"],"id":127884,"author_id":"E.A.+Bucchianeri"},{"text":"15'General ideas and great conceit are always a fair way to bring about terrible misfortune.","author":"Johann Wolfgang von Goethe","tags":["concepts","goethe","ideas"],"id":154970,"author_id":"Johann+Wolfgang+von+Goethe"},{"text":"The world is so empty if one thinks only of mountains, rivers \u0026 cities; but to know someone who thinks \u0026 feels with us, \u0026 who, though distant, is close to us in spirit, this makes the earth for us an inhabited garden.","author":"Johann Wolfgang von Goethe","tags":["community","connection","friendship","goethe","inspirational","love"],"id":183225,"author_id":"Johann+Wolfgang+von+Goethe"},{"text":"Upon the publication of Goethe’s epic drama, the Faustian legend had reached an almost unapproachable zenith. Although many failed to appreciate, or indeed, to understand this magnum opus in its entirety, from this point onward his drama was the rule by which all other Faust adaptations were measured. Goethe had eclipsed the earlier legends and became the undisputed authority on the subject of Faust in the eyes of the new Romantic generation. To deviate from his path would be nothing short of blasphemy.","author":"E.A. Bucchianeri","tags":["classic-literature","classics","drama","faust","faust-legend","faustian","faustus","goethe","romanticism","romantics"],"id":194802,"author_id":"E.A.+Bucchianeri"},{"text":"By Fortune's adverse buffets overborneTo solitude I fled, to wilds forlorn,And not in utter loneliness to live,Myself at last did to the Devil give!","author":"Johann Wolfgang von Goethe","tags":["deal-with-the-devil","fate","faust","goethe","loneliness"],"id":196802,"author_id":"Johann+Wolfgang+von+Goethe"},{"text":"Dandies, who – as you know - scorn all emotions as being beneath them, and do not believe, like that simpleton Goethe, that astonishment can ever be a proper feeling for the human mind.","author":"Jules Barbey d'Aurevilly","tags":["astonishment","dandies","emotion","goethe"],"id":203701,"author_id":"Jules+Barbey+d%27Aurevilly"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":16,"pages":2,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}