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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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If you treat an individual as he is, he will remain how he is. But if you treat him as if he were what he ought to be and could be, he will become what he ought to be and could be.


— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe


#inspirational

Whatever you can do or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power and magic in it!


— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe


#dreams

Daring ideas are like chessmen moved forward. They may be beaten, but they may start a winning game.


— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe


#daring #ideas #games

If I love you, what business is it of yours?


— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe


#i #i love #i love you #love #love you

We do not have to visit a madhouse to find disordered minds; our planet is the mental institution of the universe.


— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe


#universe

As soon as you trust yourself, you will know how to live.


— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe


#know #live #soon #trust #will

There is nothing more frightful than ignorance in action.


— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe


#ignorance #life #prejudice #life

If you've never eaten while crying you don t know what life tastes like.


— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe


#life #reality #life

You can easily judge the character of a man by how he treats those who can do nothing for him.


— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe


#misattributed #nobility #character

Know thyself? If I knew myself, I'd run away.


— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe


#running






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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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