Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes
Higher aims are in themselves more valuable, even if unfulfilled, than lower ones quite attained.
Citations
Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von. Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship. Translated by Thomas Carlyle, vol. 1, Oliver & Boyd, 1824, p. 140.
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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe was a German poet, playwright, novelist, scientist, statesman, theatre director, critic, and amateur artist. His works include: four novels; epic and lyric poetry; prose and verse dramas; memoirs; an autobiography; literary and aesthetic criticism; and treatises on botany, anatomy, and colour. He is considered to be the greatest German literary figure of the modern era.