Goethe
From 1774 on, Goethe was intimately acquainted with Lavater, but later had a falling out with him, accusing him of superstition and hypocrisy.
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Famous quotes containing the word goethe:
“One usually thinks people to be more dangerous than they are.”
—Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe (1749–1832)
“Aptitudes are assumed, they should become accomplishments. That is the purpose of all education.”
—Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe (1749–1832)
“One criticizes the English for carrying their teapots wherever they go, even lugging them up Mount Etna. But doesn’t every nation have its teapot, in which, even when traveling, it brews the dried bundles of herbs brought from home?”
—Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe (1749–1832)