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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free.


— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe


#believe #enslaved #falsely #free #hopelessly

By seeking and blundering we learn.


— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe


#experience #learning-from-mistakes #education

Life belongs to the living, and he who lives must be prepared for changes


— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe


#life #change

Every day one should at least hear one little song, read one good poem, see one fine painting and -- if at all possible -- speak a few sensible words.


— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe


#perspective #attitude

Things which matter most must never be at the mercy of things which matter least.


— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe


#mercy

knowing is not enough,we must apply willing is not enough,we must do..


— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe


#knowledge

Magic is believing in yourself, if you can do that, you can make anything happen.


— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe


#believing #happen #magic #make #you

The person born with a talent they are meant to use will find their greatest happiness in using it.


— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe


#born #find #greatest #greatest happiness #meant

All the knowledge I possess everyone else can acquire, but my heart is all my own.


— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe


#else #everyone #heart #i #knowledge

Instruction does much, but encouragement everything." (Letter to A.F. Oeser, Nov. 9, 1768)


— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe


#encouragement #instruction #learning #school #education






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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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