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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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Beauty is a manifestation of secret natural laws, which otherwise would have been hidden from us forever.


— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe


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Behavior is the mirror in which everyone shows their image.


— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe


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The way you see people is the way you treat them, and the way you treat them is what they become.


— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe


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What is important in life is life, and not the result of life.


— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe


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Love and desire are the spirit's wings to great deeds.


— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe


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Thinking is more interesting than knowing, but less interesting than looking.


— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe


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A person hears only what they understand.


— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe


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Destiny grants us our wishes, but in its own way, in order to give us something beyond our wishes.


— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe


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Just trust yourself, then you will know how to live.


— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe


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Being brilliant is no great feat if you respect nothing.


— 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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