Goethe Wikipedia Biography

Recognize the dignity of others! Schopenhauer Maximum and reflection or Maxima and Reflections Maximen und Reflexionen, -; b. Wilmont, N. William-Vilmont [1] [2] Some books, apparently, are not written in order to learn something from them, but to let go of the light, which the author learned something. Who does not know foreign languages, does not know anything about his own.

The lyrics - in general - should be very reasonable, in the privileges a little rustic. The novel is a subjective epic in which the author triggers permission to rewind the world in his own way. And therefore, the whole question is whether he has his own fret. The rest will fit. Superstition is the poetry of life, and therefore it does not matter if the poet is superstitious. There is something magical in the rhythm; He makes us believe that the exalted belongs to us.

The most absurd of all delusions is when young gifted people imagine that they will lose originality, recognizing correctly what was already recognized by others. Our relations with Schiller were based on a decisive aspiration of both to a single goal, our joint activity - on the difference between the funds with which we tried to achieve it. Translators are troublesome architects, in every possible way chopping us a beauty half -dead with a veil; They excite an immature desire for the original.

The art itself is noble. Therefore, the artist is not afraid of the low. Accepting it under his cover, he already ennobles him. Humor is one of the elements of a genius, but, as soon as he begins to excel, only the surrogate of the latter; It accompanies decadent art, destroys and ultimately destroys it. Beauty will never understand its essence. In artless truthfulness and greatness, but the talent of Lord Byron developed wildly and unbridled; Therefore, hardly anyone can compare with him.

This is the case with whole nations. The Germans received the right to judge literature only from the time, as they themselves created it. For genuine art, there is no preparatory school, there are only preparatory work; The best of them is the participation of even the most insignificant student in the master of the master. Excellent artists came out of boys who slanted paints.

Music - in the best sense of the word - less needs novelty; On the contrary, the older she is, the more correct, the more it affects.

Patriotic art and patriotic science does not exist. Like everything high and noble, they belong to the whole world, and only the free interaction of all contemporaries in constant taking into account what remains of the past can be disposed of. Many thoughts grow only from a common culture, like a flower from a green branch. At the time of flowering, roses rose bloom everywhere.

Romanticism has already rolled into the abyss; It is impossible to imagine something more disgusting than his latest products. Henry Fourth Shakespeare. If everything that had ever been written in this genre died, then one could completely restore both poetry and rhetoric on it. More stupid is the one who thinks that he loses his originality is mistaken if he recognizes the truth already recognized by others.

Art is an intermediary of what cannot be expressed. DIE KUNST IST EINE VERMITTLERIN des UNAUSSPRECHLICHEN. Hatred is an active sense of dissatisfaction; Envy is passive. This is not therefore surprised if envy quickly turns into hatred. There is nothing more disgusting than the majority: after all, it consists of the few strong, coming ahead, of the adjacent cunning people, of the weak, who try not to stand out, and from the crowd, which is seeded, not knowing what she wants.

The current conscience has no, only the observer has a conscience. Der handelnde ist Immer Gewissenlos; ES HAT NIEMAND GEWISSEN ALS DER BETRACHTENDE. The consciousness of its imperfection brings closer to perfection. They complain about science [edit] that they are not fully included in life; But it does not depend on them, but on the method of treating science in general. Without sources.