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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe • Maxims and Reflections
It is failings that show human nature, and merits that distinguish the individual; faults and misfortunes we all have in common; virtues belong to each one separately.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe • Maxims and Reflections
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It is, then, depth and truth and sanity of observation which chiefly mark these sayings of Goethe. It is no concern of his to dazzle the mind by the brilliance of his wit; nor does he labour to say things because they are striking, but only because they are true.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe • Maxims and Reflections
Once when a slight difference was mentioned between us, of which I was reminded by a passage in a letter of his, I made the following reflections: There is a great difference between a poet seeking the particular for the universal, and seeing the universal in the particular. The one gives rise to Allegory, where the particular serves only as
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Enthusiasm is of the greatest value, so long as we are not carried away by it.