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    Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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    There is strong shadow where there is much light. ↗


    — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

    #enlightenment #shadow #enlightenment

    In the colorful reflection we have what is life. ↗


    — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

    #life

    All that is transitory is but a metaphor. ↗


    — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

    #existential #existentialism #life #metaphor #life

    He is happiest, be he king or peasant, who finds peace in his home. ↗


    — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

    #happiest #his #home #king #peace

    Waste not a day in vain digression; with resolute, courageous trust seek every possible impression and make it firmly your posession you'll then work on because you must. ↗


    — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

    #courage

    The heights charm us, but the steps do not; with the mountain in our view we love to walk the plains. ↗


    — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

    #inertia #motivation #love

    He who moves not forward, goes backward. ↗


    — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

    #work #life

    It's true that nothing in this world makes us so necessary to others as the affection we have for them. ↗


    — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

    #love #necessity #love

    Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing ↗


    — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

    #marriage #reality #love

    If any man wish to write in a clear style, let him be first clear in his thoughts; and if any would write in a noble style, let him first possess a noble soul. ↗


    — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

    #noble






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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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