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Goethe Johann Wolfgang: Životne misli

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Životne misli

Goethe Johann Wolfgang

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Johann Wolfgang Goethe: Life Thoughts 

To love is human, you just have to love humanly. The worse the country, the better the patriots. A man wants a lot, but needs so little. Stupidity knows no care. Fools and smart people are equally harmless. Half fools and half wise men are the most dangerous. It is not important to know, but to know, how well and how much to know. The work of Johann Wolfgang Goethe (1749 – 1832) is enormous: he wrote poems, epics, novels, comedies, tragedies, memoirs, and in everything he acted outside the boundaries of his time. When the complete edition was published, from 1887 to 1916, it included almost the entire library: 143 volumes in total, of which 55 literary works in 63 volumes, 15 scientific writings in 14 volumes, 15 diaries in 16 volumes and 50 volumes of letters. Of course, we should also add Conversations, published in 10 volumes, from 1889 to 1896. What did Goethe's artistic strength consist of? In the immediate intervention from life. Even distinguished contemporaries of Goethe often did not understand the liberated beauty of his language and his thoughts, which far exceeded the aesthetic and ethical values ​​of their era. Much of what he wrote is "poetry and truth", compressed truth. For her, poetry is not some kind of opposition to truth, but a special form of truth. Goethe was full of the joy of life, full of emotional participation in everything human. A poet, says Goethe, should only write about what he experiences and what he loves. The plastic power of shaping, the abundance of imagination, the multiplicity of feelings, the wide tonal scale of natural experiences, give his literature a unique maturity and beauty. But above all, a deep desire for knowledge and truth: in the multiplicity of phenomena, to know what is lawful, that is, the original phenomenon. Not the imaginary, but the real world is described and painted by a poet who is "born to see / created to see" (Faust).

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