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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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There is nothing insignificant in the world. It all depends on the point of view.


— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe


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Those who hope for no other life are dead even for this.


— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe


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To create something you must be something.


— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe


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To hard necessity ones will and fancy must conform.


— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe


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To the person with a firm purpose all men and things are servants.


— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe


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Upon the creatures we have made, we are, ourselves, at last, dependent.


— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe


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We always have time enough, if we will but use it aright.


— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe


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We are never further from what we wish than when we believe that we have what we wished for.


— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe


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What life half gives a man, posterity gives entirely.


— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe


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The world remains ever the same.


— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe


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Did you know about Johann Wolfgang von Goethe?

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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