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Throughout his long, hectic and astonishingly varied life, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832) would jot down his passing thoughts on theatre programmes, visiting cards, draft manuscripts and even bills ... Goethe was probably the last true 'Renaissance Man'. Although employed... Read Full Overview

The translation of Goethe's "Prose Maxims" now offered to the public is the first attempt that has yet been made to present the greater part of these incomparable sayings in English. In the complete collection they are over a thousand in number, and not more perhaps than a hundred... Read Full Overview

A series of collected maxims, aphorisms, and reflections written by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, originally published in this form in 1906, translated by Bailey Saunders.

The translation of Goethe's "Prose Maxims" now offered to the public is the first attempt that has yet been made to present the greater part of these incomparable sayings in English. In the complete collection they are over a thousand in number, and not more perhaps than a hundred... Read Full Overview

Goethe was probably the last true 'Renaissance Man'. Although employed as a Privy Councillor at the Duke of Weimar's court, where he helped oversee major mining, road-building and irrigation projects, he also painted, directed plays, carried out research in anatomy, botany and... Read Full Overview

Maxims and Reflections is a collection of several hundred brilliant, unforgettable paragraphs and aphorisms by the legendary German Renaissance writer Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, divided into the categories Life and Character, Literature and Art, Science and Nature. Like the... Read Full Overview

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (28 August 1749 - 22 March 1832) was a German writer, artist, and politician. His body of work includes epic and lyric poetry written in a variety of metres and styles; prose and verse dramas; memoirs; an autobiography; literary and aesthetic criticism;... Read Full Overview

Johann Wolfgang Goethe: Maximen und Reflexionen Lesefreundlicher Gro druck in 16-pt-Schrift Edition Holzinger. Gro format, 216 x 279 mm Berliner Ausgabe, 2016 Vollst ndiger, durchgesehener Neusatz mit einer Biographie des Autors bearbeitet und eingerichtet von Michael Holzinger... Read Full Overview

"Dive into the profound insights and timeless wisdom of one of the greatest minds in literary history with Johann Wolfgang von Goethe's 'Maxims and Reflections'. In this remarkable collection, Goethe distills a lifetime of experience and contemplation into a series of pithy... Read Full Overview

A great book of 1413 maxims from various Goethe works and sketchings

Some samplers:

"Wisdom is to be found only in truth"

"The smallest hair casts its shadow"

"Hindus in the desert vow never to eat fish"

"We all live on the past and... Read Full Overview

A great book of 1413 maxims from various Goethe works and sketchings

Some samplers:

"Wisdom is to be found only in truth"

"The smallest hair casts its shadow"

"Hindus in the desert vow never to eat fish"

"We all live on the past and... Read Full Overview