A school may be regarded as a single individual who talks to himself for a hundred years, and takes an extraordinary pleasure in his own being, however, foolish and silly it may be.


Translated by Thomas Bailey Saunders, The Maxims and Reflections of Goethe, #569 (p. 198)

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes

A school may be regarded as a single individual who talks to himself for a hundred years, and takes an extraordinary pleasure in his own being,...

A school may be regarded as a single individual who talks to himself for a hundred years, and takes an extraordinary pleasure in his own being,...

A school may be regarded as a single individual who talks to himself for a hundred years, and takes an extraordinary pleasure in his own being,...

A school may be regarded as a single individual who talks to himself for a hundred years, and takes an extraordinary pleasure in his own being,...