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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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The Christian religion, though scattered and abroad will in the end gather itself together at the foot of the cross.


— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe


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Few people have the imagination for reality.


— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe


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He only earns his freedom and his life Who takes them every day by storm.


— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe


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Happiness is a ball after which we run wherever it rolls, and we push it with our feet when it stops.


— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe


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Beauty is everywhere a welcome guest.


— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe


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Man is made by his belief. As he believes, so he is.


— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe


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Doubt grows with knowledge.


— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe


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He who possesses art and science has religion; he who does not possess them, needs religion.


— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe


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All theory, dear friend, is gray, but the golden tree of life springs ever green.


— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe


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Nature knows no pause in progress and development, and attaches her curse on all inaction.


— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe


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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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