been written on Goethe, it is very much better to read Goethe himself.
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testimony to his wonderful anticipations of later theories.
writer whatever, even though it be Montaigne or Bacon or Shakespeare;
to-day may easily become the poisonous suggestion of to-morrow.
by belittling human endeavour. Goethe shows us a more excellent way.
steady, passionless, and undaunted observation of human affairs.
there was no page of the book of life that was not thrown open to him.
not mistaken, or at least unduly narrowed, the sphere of his activity.
final outcome of this indomitable character, that is here put before us.
applied no other measure but reason and the nature and needs of man.
objection, that like the furthest of the stars they have no parallax:
whatever position we take, their light is steadfast.
never been made before; that it was not so, no one knew better than he.
truths for oneself, and learn to see how much there is in commonplaces.
follow in the footsteps of their thought.
men themselves are different.
character and capacity of the man.
objection on this ground.
and unwearied effort on a definite, positive, productive path;
us, and make the best of it, our aim must be practical and creative.
airs of conceit, in foolish arrogance, in malice and acrimony.
and make the most and fairest of it.
Was zu wünschen ist, ihr unten fühlt es;
Was zu geben sei, die wissen's droben.
Ist der Götter Werk; die lasst gewähren.
ideal of love and service, _das Ewig-Weibliche_, that draws us on.
problem begins, and then to keep within the limits of what we can grasp.
we hope, all our efforts are made.
living--to this," he exclaimed, "have come our makers of literature.
better taste would have left undescribed.
duty is to stand entirely at the point of view of his author's thought;
[2] _Wilhelm Meisters Wanderjahre_, Bk. I. ch. 10.
[3] _Gespräche mit Eckermann_, III. 4 January, 1824.
search for it is not given to every one.
We all live on the past, and through the past are destroyed.
in secret, and looks about for the means of satisfying them.
are in a like case; and, generally, you cannot get at the truth at all.
much determination he is capable.
act in spite of it, and then criticism will gradually yield to him.
masters, the processes always meet.
can promise to be sincere, but not to be impartial.
ability to be ungrateful.
and audacity trying to go on too fast.
other, as is sufficiently evident in the case of metaphors and similes.
symbolical mysticism, which are doubly an evil.
arises for their application.
When you lose interest in anything, you also lose the memory for it.
The world is a bell with a crack in it; it rattles, but does not ring.
they grow old they become the truest worshippers of Art and the Master.
mischief, and delight in it.
Clever people are the best encyclopædia.
If I know my relation to myself and the outer world, I call it truth.
let it work on by itself.
A man never understands how anthropomorphic he is.
Things that are mysterious are not yet miracles.
should like to be honest with you, without our falling out; but it
adherents and lose your friends. What is to be the end of it?
always have to pay for your humanity.
its mission of being productive. Still less can a concept be liberal;
us apply this test to what we hear every day.