An old foundation is worthy of all respect, but it must not take from us the right to build afresh wherever we will.


Translated by Thomas Bailey Saunders, The Maxims and Reflections of Goethe, 536 (p. 188)

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes

An old foundation is worthy of all respect, but it must not take from us the right to build afresh wherever we will.

An old foundation is worthy of all respect, but it must not take from us the right to build afresh wherever we will.

An old foundation is worthy of all respect, but it must not take from us the right to build afresh wherever we will.

An old foundation is worthy of all respect, but it must not take from us the right to build afresh wherever we will.