How To Use Goethe In A Sentence
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People who commit these falsehoods may be people of talent, and, as Goethe says of himself, may have "desire to fabulate.
Criminal Psychology: a manual for judges, practitioners, and students
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If we may apply to art what Goethe said of poetry we find that among its votaries there are two kinds of self-half-informed people, "dilettanti," he calls them, "he who neglects the indispensable mechanical part, and he thinks he has done enough if he shows spirituality and feeling, and he who seeks to arrive at poetry merely by mechanism in which he can acquire an artisan's readiness, and is without soul and matter.
Final Report of the Louisiana Purchase Exposition Commission
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It was a modern version of the Faust theme, but comic, not philosophical, with apologies to Goethe and Marlowe.
THE INNOCENTS AT HOME (A SUPERINTENDENT KENWORTHY NOVEL)
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The poet Goethe is a supreme exponent of the Romantic response to nature.
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Their breeding behaviour and how they and their chicks respond to stimuli is tremendously well studied, with the studies of Goethe, Tinbergen and others being classic, pioneering works in ethology.
Archive 2006-02-01
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Goethe has there suggested; and we shall find it can be arranged in what I may call a pentatonic scale of culture.
Scientific American Supplement, No. 1178, June 25, 1898
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Goethe argued that when the three primary colors were combined their unity contained the whole chromatic scale.
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To employ Vico'sterms, since I have used them to organize this book, Petrarch created the lyric poetry of the Aristocratic Age, which culminated in Goethe.
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It should be noted that E. F. Kankrin, then the Russian minister of finance, made use of Goethe's advice to mint coins in platinum.
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Goethe employs the fiction that an editor-figure publishes, with an epilogue, the authentic letters of a young man who commits suicide.
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Goethe and Schiller did not call themselves Klas - siker and actually had an ambiguous attitude toward the whole enterprise of establishing a classical litera - ture.
CLASSICISM IN LITERATURE
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Goethe viewed the debate rather detachedly, he was, during his lifetime, fast becoming the German Klas - siker or at least one of the two great Klassiker.
CLASSICISM IN LITERATURE
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Kindness is the golden chain by which society is bound together. Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
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Indeed, in Conversations of Goethe, Eckermann recounts how Faust’s author carved his initials into not an oak but a beech tree, the dominant species in the forest the name Buchenwald, chosen by SS leader Heinrich Himmler, means beech forest.
The Lampshade
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Goethe has called the Weltschmerz, and in which the concentrated sorrow of the world seemed suddenly to lie heavy upon him.
Miscellaneous Studies; a series of essays
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The indecision brings its own delays, and days are lost lamenting o'er lost days. Are you in earnest? Seize this very minute; what you can do, or dream you can, begin it; boldness as genius, power and magic in it. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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Ah... everyone would be forgotten, even Goethe, if the earth should chance to collide with a comet.
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The correspondents to whom his letters were addressed were not persons specially interested in religion or chemistry or the cabbala, and, of all men, Goethe was least likely to be obsessed by any set of ideas to the exclusion of all others.
The Youth of Goethe
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To help towards a clear understanding of both tendencies, Goethe describes an exercise which is characteristic of his way of schooling himself in what he called exact sensorial fantasy.
Man or Matter
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He at once wrote Gutel a missive so thickly interlarded with quotations from the Song of Solomon, from Goethe, Petofi, Heine, and Chateaubriand, that when Kalimann read the billet-doux to the blushing girl her head was quite turned.
Stories by Foreign Authors: German — Volume 1
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I will not be as those who spend the day in complaining of headache, and the night in drinking the wine that gives it. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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Craig then says that "Goethe tended to be unsympathetic toward university intellectuals with liberal views, but this was because he feared that their activities would lead neighboring princes to withdraw their subjects from the university
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The Goethe Case
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Much laborious discussion has been wasted in defining genius, particularly by the countrymen of Schiller, some of whom have narrowed the conditions of the term so far, as to find but three _men of genius_ since the world was created: Homer, Shakspeare, and Goethe!
The Life of Friedrich Schiller Comprehending an Examination of His Works
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Goethe is said to have said of himself that there was no vice or crime of which he could not trace the tendency in himself, and that at some period of his life he could not have understood fully.
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Kindness is the golden chain by which society is bound together. Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
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Superstition is the poetry of life. Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
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Habit is a man's sole comfort. We dislike doing without even unpleasant things to which we have become accustomed. Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
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Goethe, the author of Faust and many other diverse works, was a major force; his work influenced philosophers such as Hegel, Schopenhauer, Nietzsche, Cassirer, Jung and Wittgenstein.
Dr. Larry Dossey: Spiritual Living: Why We Need Empathic Science
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Echoing Goethe's Romantic interpretation and adulation, Belinsky's Bard ‘understood heaven, earth, and hell’ but was, nonetheless, an ‘ignoramus’, nescient of the meaning of his own plays.
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Wisdom is found only in truth. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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The soundtrack is a version of Paul Dukas '"The Sorcerer's Apprentice", a tone poem that sets to music a poem by Goethe about an apprentice who tries to use magic while his master is away, and it all goes awry.
Are these the first TV ads for Windows Phone 7
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As well as the free exhibit there are lectures, Sunday concerts and weekly film screenings at the bastion of German cinema, the Goethe-Institut.
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Enjoy when you can, and endure when you must. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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I will not be as those who spend the day in complaining of headache, and the night in drinking the wine that gives it. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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Despite his joy in Wolff as someone who in his own fashion had arrived at certain truths which he himself had also discovered, and despite his agreement with Wolff's phenomenalistic principle, Goethe could in no way accept his explanation of why metamorphosis took place in plants.
Man or Matter
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I have more sympathy with Dante the man than Goethe the man
Eliot's English Usage
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If Schiller and Goethe dare once to come out of their exile, then Nestroy's plum-pudding jinnee steps in their path, and they of course modestly give way to him.
The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Volume 09 Friedrich Hebbel and Otto Ludwig
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From Berlin, Bill Allen reports on how Germans are digging in against what they see as an unmitigated attack on the language of Goethe and Schiller.
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He goes on to extol especially the epigrammatic power of the elegiac distich by translating numerous specimens from the elegiac writings of Goethe and Schiller.
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Lessing, Wieland, Herder, Goethe, and Schiller (Wil - helm Münch, “Über den Begriff des Klassikers” in Zum deutschen Kultur - und Bildungsleben, Berlin [1912]), an extremely heterogeneous group of which Klopstock today would appear to belong to what is usually called sentimentalism; Lessing, in spite of his polemics against the practices of French tragedy, is a ration - alistic classicist who worshipped Aristotle; Wieland is rather a man of the Enlightenment whose art strikes us often as rococo; Herder would seem an irrationalistic preromantic.
CLASSICISM IN LITERATURE
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As late as 1820, Goethe worried that women and children should not be exposed to the "dogma of sexuality" in botanical studies (Stern 245).
Notes
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[Footnote 13: So Weislingen (in _Götz von Berlichingen_), whom Goethe meant to be a double of himself, says: "_Ich bin ein Chamaeleon_."]
The Youth of Goethe
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Lessing's first publication was a volume of Anacreontics, as was Goethe's.
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The dangers for Stephen, however, arc the barbed remarks of the scholars, presently engaged in a discussion of Goethe's novel, Wilhelm Meister.
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Beethoven claimed to Goethe that he had rapped Rudolph over the knuckles for keeping him waiting in an anteroom, and doubtless the composition lessons became increasingly irksome.
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The German ambassador and the director of the Goethe Institut rode on tilburies with the immense crowd on each side of the street welcoming them.
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Untamed Thought, great, giantlike, enormous; -- to be tamed in due time into the compact greatness, not giant-like, but godlike and stronger than gianthood, of the Shakspeares, the Goethes!
Sartor Resartus, and On Heroes, Hero-Worship, and the Heroic in History
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It was by this confidence in finding in the hitherto unexplored domains of nature what reason demanded, that Goethe, from the analogies of the mammalian skeleton, discovered the intermaxillary bone in man; and Sir William
The Arena Volume 4, No. 19, June, 1891
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Treat a man as he is, he will remain so. Treat a man the way he can be and ought to be, and he will become as he can be and should be. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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His poetry gives evidence of a bookish and extremely thoughtful life while encountering the forms and rituals of cultures without literatures — West African, Mexican and Central American — as well as the writers — Augustine, Goethe, Rilke, David Hume, Hugh MacDiarmid — whose traces we find allusively placed throughout his work.
A mess of errors : Stephen Burt : Harriet the Blog : The Poetry Foundation
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He sang Schubert's setting of a Goethe poem.
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Enjoy when you can, and endure when you must. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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Therewithal, I flew back again in the three days between first and second term in Goethe Institut to visit the Aunt Boss of cultural relic protection bureau.
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There is a well-known poem by Goethe, “Weltliteratur” (1827), which rehearses rather the delights of folk poetry and actually got its title erroneously from the editor of the
LITERATURE AND ITS COGNATES
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Kindness is the golden chain by which society is bound together. Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
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The mystical philosopher Rudolf Steiner, founder of the anthroposophist movement, named two buildings after Goethe.
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Steiner viewed architecture as a servant of human life, and he designed the Goetheanum to support the work of anthroposophy — drama and eurythmy in particular.
Rudolf Steiner: the third human need
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When childhood tales of that great-uncle never returning from post-war Soviet imprisonment pulsed again in his mind as they had done, faintly though steadily, since he'd arrived in the city, Connie laid down his knife and fork and brought a hand up to his chin, hoping his arm would be enough to obstruct the Goethe-Institut emblem across his chest.
A Bear Hunt in Riga
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I will not be as those who spend the day in complaining of headache, and the night in drinking the wine that gives it. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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Steiner viewed architecture as a servant of human life, and he designed the Goetheanum to support the work of anthroposophy — drama and eurythmy in particular.
Rudolf Steiner: the third human need
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We are reminded of Goethe's words, when he said: "Say yes ... (for) the moment you do, then mountains move, and helpmates arrive from the most unimaginable places.
Dr. Cara Barker: Are You Living a Life Too Small?
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In the figure of the beautiful, flamboyant poet and improvisatore Corinne, de Staël created a fictional character who became an international symbol of Romanticism, quite as much as Goethe's Werther or Byron's Corsair.
The Great de Staël
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Dream no small dreams for they have no power to move the hearts of men. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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A wasting beauty in women was called ethereal, while robust health was considered vulgar; in men, tuberculosis was thought to denote creative genius, prompted by the suffering of such artists as Poe, Goethe, Balzac, Stevenson, and Keats.
A Furnace Afloat
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The preferred personal orientation is an egotistical one and the scholar who best illustrates it for Cooley is Goethe.
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Habit is a man's sole comfort. We dislike doing without even unpleasant things to which we have become accustomed. Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
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The indecision brings its own delays, and days are lost lamenting o'er lost days. Are you in earnest? Seize this very minute; what you can do, or dream you can, begin it; boldness as genius, power and magic in it. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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Unfortunately for translators, and for readers of Goethe unfamiliar with German, the converse is also true: the poetry of the German language is of the essence of Goethe.
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JALC's Ellis notes, If you look at people's general disposition towards culture and look at the work of Alliance Française or the Goethe Institute, you often find the impression of a country or culture becomes manifesting behavior years after, in unpredictable ways.
Linda Constant: A Different Kind of P2P: The Rhythm Road: American Music Abroad
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To Herder as to everyone else Goethe aired his opinions with the "frank confidingness" which he notes as a trait of his own character, and which gave Herder frequent opportunities for scathing criticism.
The Youth of Goethe
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The indecision brings its own delays, and days are lost lamenting o'er lost days. Are you in earnest? Seize this very minute; what you can do, or dream you can, begin it; boldness as genius, power and magic in it. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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The indecision brings its own delays, and days are lost lamenting o'er lost days. Are you in earnest? Seize this very minute; what you can do, or dream you can, begin it; boldness as genius, power and magic in it. 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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Courage is the commitment to begin without any guarantee of success. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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Why then did Goethe claim so vigorously that there was a close similarity between his and Runge's views on colour?
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It is, as he himself says, a strange composite of Neo-Platonism, and of hermetical, mystical, and cabbalistical speculations, all leading by a necessary logic to the dogmas of Redemption and the Incarnation -- a conclusion which at least points to the fact that for Goethe at this time
The Youth of Goethe
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Kindness is the golden chain by which society is bound together. Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
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_motif_ of his works; nay, finally, it finds these more interesting than the works themselves; it reads more about Goethe than what has been written by Goethe, and industriously studies the legend of Faust in preference to Goethe's _Faust_ itself.
Essays of Schopenhauer
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The same tendency appeared in other countries, though various philosophers showed weak points in the argument, and Goethe made sport of it in a noted verse, praising the forethought of the Creator in foreordaining the cork tree to furnish stoppers for wine-bottles.
A History of the warfare of Science with Theology in Christendom
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Goethe's Faust reminds us forever that the devil is personal, not impersonal.
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But at the same time, and often in stark contrast to Goethe, Schiller displayed an inextinguishable sense of the tragic.
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I have spent the past two semesters in the study of these two great dramaturgic critics, and the whole stilted French pseudo-classicism is, as far as I'm concerned, utterly destroyed -- not only in creative art itself but in such manifestations as the boundless folly of the directions for acting which Goethe prescribed in his old age.
The Dramatic Works of Gerhart Hauptmann Volume II
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Goethe obtained a copy of the biography of a noble highwayman from the Peasants’ War.
March « 2008 « poetry dispatch & other notes from the underground
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Goethe and "Jean Paul" were putting the finishing touches to their work while Carlyle, then a young man, was striving to interpret these so strange appearances to the English-speaking world, to hammer some small appreciation of German literature into the autotheistic British head.
The Complete Works of Brann the Iconoclast, Volume 1.
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BinaryWang: He who seize the right moment, is the right man. ---Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, German writer and polymath.
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Kindness is the golden chain by which society is bound together. Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
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We recall Goethe writing The Sorrows of Young Werther, which set off a wave of suicides in Europe in imitation of the eponymous hero.
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Whatever you do, or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius and power and magic in it. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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Unlike most deconstructionist critics today, Goethe went beyond the assertion that modern science consists largely of constructed knowledge.
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But after all, what are Schiller, Goethe, or Shakespeare comparedto the heroes of the newer German poetic art?
Mein Kampf
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But as a dramatic prelude to the writing of Goethe's breakthrough work, "The Sorrows of Young Werther," the film follows the facts: While living in the smallish burg of Wetzlar, Goethe was indeed involved with Charlotte Buff (played by the ravishing Miriam Stein); her fiancé was Goethe's fellow counselor-at-law, Albert Kestner (the ubiquitous Moritz Bleibtreu); their mutual friend, Wilhelm Jerusalem (Volker Bruch) did in fact kill himself for love.
Crime Comedy 'Heist' Lacks Conviction
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Faust legend will surely again be recognized as deriv - ing not from the theme of existential despair (which it shares with many other tales and myths), but from the paradox of self-limiting and even self-destroying aspiration which, as Goethe knew, the legend symbol - izes with apparently unique distinction.
Dictionary of the History of Ideas
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We are "atmosphered" — to use Goethe's word — during these days with the thoughts of this great man's work in the founding of the Institution whose hundredth anniversary we are celebrating.
The Centennial of the University of Virginia, 1819-1921
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There is in human nature what Goethe used to call a demoniac element, defying all law, and all induction; and we can, I fear, from that one cause, as easily calculate the progress of the human race, as we can calculate that of the vines upon the slopes of AEtna, with the lava ready to boil up and overwhelm them at any and every moment.
Roman and the Teuton
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If I love you, what business is it of yours? Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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Goethe's scientific interest in color was inspired by the natural optical phenomena and the coloristic traditions of Renaissance painting that he encountered during his first journey to Italy.
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Then he paused a second to add that, of course, Goethe, like the encyclopedist Diderot, was a novelist on the side.
Yellow Dining Room
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Habit is a man's sole comfort. We dislike doing without even unpleasant things to which we have become accustomed. Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
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Because of its coalescence with the maxillaries, the intermaxillary in man was not discovered until Vicq d'Azyr and Goethe found it separate in the embryo.
Form and Function A Contribution to the History of Animal Morphology
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Whatever you do, or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius and power and magic in it. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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Bohemia has developed a strong "spirit of negation," "_der Geist der stets verneint_," as Goethe would say, to the detriment of constructive ability, so it may be that this spirit having failed to reconstruct a church of some sort, at least on national lines, is going under before the mightiest organization the world has ever known, the Church of Rome.
From a Terrace in Prague
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Few people have the imagination for reality. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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The preferred personal orientation is an egotistical one and the scholar who best illustrates it for Cooley is Goethe.
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Another of Brodsky's sources of inspiration is English poetry from the metaphysicist John Donne to W.H. Auden, he who wanted to be a lesser, atlantic Goethe.
Nobel Prize in Literature 1987 - Press Release
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Endecott," said Faith joyously, -- "Goethe would have more than enough if he was here.
Say and Seal, Volume II
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He means Goethe, not the preludic and breath-born (e) launch of Wordsworth's "Oh there is a blessing in this gentle breeze," where the deictic "this" serves almost to demonstrate the poem's own aspirant impetus.
Phonemanography: Romantic to Victorian
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= Mephistoph´eles = (5 _syl. _), the sneering, jeering, leering attendant demon of Faust in Goethe’s drama of _Faust_, and Gounod’s opera of the same name.
Character Sketches of Romance, Fiction and the Drama A Revised American Edition of the Reader's Handbook, Vol. 3
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The opera"Faust"is one piece of representative work in all of Gounod's operas, the plot in which about a tragic love story between Faust and Margarita was from parts of Goethe's drama"Faust".
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There is a politeness of the heart; this is closely allied to love. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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Kindness is the golden chain by which society is bound together. Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
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Goethe's morphological researches; his “historical” researches, far from indicating a surrender of morphol - ogy, represent an effort toward a total understanding of the folkloristic creations; Lévi-Strauss is not inter - ested in the folktale and does not try to know folktales, but is satisfied with logical operations and abstractions
Dictionary of the History of Ideas
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Enjoy when you can, and endure when you must. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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Habit is a man's sole comfort. We dislike doing without even unpleasant things to which we have become accustomed. Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
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Ever since the Swedish Academy made public its decision, I have lived in festive intoxication, an enchanting topsy-turvy, and I cannot illustrate its consequences on my mind and soul better than by pointing to a pretty and curious love poem by Goethe.
Thomas Mann - Banquet Speech
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None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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Pushkin is personally present in Russian culture in a way that has no parallel, for instance, in the posthumous lives of Shakespeare, Dante, or Goethe.
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The new cosmopolitic tendency of the poetry of these times is chiefly due to the influence exercised by Goethe.
Germany from the Earliest Period Volume 4
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Leah Hager Cohen on The Writer's Brush: Paintings, Drawings, and Sculpture by Artists by Donald Friedman: When we think of such heavyweights as Goethe, Dostoyevsky, Faulkner, Yeats and Proust — all represented in these pages — we may think of them with reverence; certainly we view their works as being abidingly and immutably rooted in language, founded on words.
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Treat a man as he is, he will remain so. Treat a man the way he can be and ought to be, and he will become as he can be and should be. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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Goethe, Heidegger, and Stefan Georg were all surrounded by fawning disciples.
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Fresh activity is the only means of overcoming adversity. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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Goethe cultivated a special, italianate hand for this portfolio of twenty-four "elegies," so called because he was emulating the elegiasts of
Erotica Romana
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The young Goethe was himself madly in love with a woman named Charlotte Buff, who was to be married to his friend, Georg Kestner.
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Not necessarily because the PR folks at Metro are inherently so poetic, but Metro's response actually brings to mind one of Goethe's most famous lines from Faust: "Die Geister, die ich rief, werd' ich nun nicht los.
John Mirisch: Fault-y Towers: Don't Mention the Core!
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Treat a man as he is, he will remain so. Treat a man the way he can be and ought to be, and he will become as he can be and should be. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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It is a thread of pure white light that one might disentwine from the tumultuary richness of Goethe's nature.
Miscellaneous Studies; a series of essays
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He defended German culture against its political appropriation by the Prussian and Austrian regimes, but criticized its insufficiencies, in Goethe, for example, who remained enthralled to the metaphysical tradition.
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German today is peppered with borrowings from English and, despite some mutterings, there are no official attempts to purify the tongue of Goethe and Grass.
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JALC's Ellis notes, If you look at people's general disposition towards culture and look at the work of Alliance Française or the Goethe Institute, you often find the impression of a country or culture becomes manifesting behavior years after, in unpredictable ways.
Linda Constant: A Different Kind of P2P: The Rhythm Road: American Music Abroad
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He sang Schubert's setting of a Goethe poem.
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Here he allegorizes good and evil, much more in the manner of Spenser or Goethe than that of his American literary contemporaries Melville or Poe.
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At 3 months of age, the female infant was admitted to the pediatric intensive care unit of the J.W. Goethe University Hospital at Frankfurt am Main with the classic presentation of FHL characterized by a sepsis-like clinical picture with hepatosplenomegaly, pancytopenia, and impaired liver function.
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Character develops itself in the stream of life. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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Magic is believing in yourself. If you can do that you make anything happen. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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Courage is the commitment to begin without any guarantee of success. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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Courage is the commitment to begin without any guarantee of success. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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That Goethe is looking at parts of the same organism, while Darwin is treating of entire organismic forms of related groups is beside the point.
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The book began with a quotation from Goethe.
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Whatever you do, or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius and power and magic in it. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
