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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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If God had wanted me otherwise, He would have created me otherwise.


— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe


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If you start to think of your physical and moral condition, you usually find that you are sick.


— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe


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Personality is everything in art and poetry.


— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe


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Talent develops in quiet places, character in the full current of human life.


— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe


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The coward only threatens when he is safe.


— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe


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There is nothing in the world more shameful than establishing one's self on lies and fables.


— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe


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If you must tell me your opinions, tell me what you believe in. I have plenty of doubts of my own.


— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe


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If your treat an individual... 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


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One must ask children and birds how cherries and strawberries taste.


— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe


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The biggest problem with every art is by the use of appearance to create a loftier reality.


— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe


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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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