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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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The Christian religion, though scattered and abroad will in the end gather itself together at the foot of the cross.


— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe


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If you wish to know the mind of a man, listen to his words.


— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe


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It seems to never occur to fools that merit and good fortune are closely united.


— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe


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Mastery passes often for egotism.


— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe


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Go to foreign countries and you will get to know the good things one possesses at home.


— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe


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Science arose from poetry... when times change the two can meet again on a higher level as friends.


— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe


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The hardest thing to see is what is in front of your eyes.


— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe


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There is nothing so terrible as activity without insight.


— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe


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Unlike grown ups, children have little need to deceive themselves.


— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe


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Where is the man who has the strength to be true, and to show himself as he is?


— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe


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His conversations and various common undertakings throughout the 1790s with Schiller Johann Gottlieb Fichte Johann Gottfried Herder Alexander von Humboldt Wilhelm von Humboldt and August and Friedrich Schlegel have in later years been collectively termed Weimar Classicism. After returning from a tour of Italy in 1788 Goethe publiJohann Wolfgang von Goethed his first major work of a scientific nature the Metamorphosis of Plants. He was an early participant in the Sturm und Drang literary movement named for a play by his childhood friend Friedrich Maximilian Klinger.

Goethe's poems were set to music throughout the nineteenth century by a number of composers including Ludwig van Beethoven Franz Schubert Robert Schumann Johannes Brahms Hugo Wolf and Gustav Mahler. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (German: [ˈjoːhan ˈvɔlfɡaŋ fɔn ˈɡøːtə] ([Image] listen) 28 August 1749 – 22 March 1832) was a German writer artist and politician.

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