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Maxims and Reflections, 1833
Poet, minister of state, botanist, theatre director, and for sixty years a man in Weimar writing down what he had noticed. Whatever you can do, or dream you can, begin it.
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Kept by Substance · the quoted lines are theirs, the rest written after them · Maxims and Reflections
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“In the web of the world the one may well be regarded as the warp, the other as the woof.”
“Whoso is content with pure experience and acts upon it has enough of truth.”
“The man who felt the full force of this fundamental truth would dispute with no one, but look upon another’s mode of thought equally with his own, as merely a phenomenon.”
I learned this when I saw two scholars arguing over the same plant leaf; one spoke of its shape, the other of its spirit. Neither heard the other because both believed their view was the only true one. The…