Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes
I look upon all four Gospels as thoroughly genuine, for there shines forth from them the reflected splendor of a sublimity proceeding from Jesus Christ.
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von Goethe, Johann Wolfgang, and Johann Peter Eckermann. Conversations of Goethe with Eckermann and Soret. Translated by John Oxenford, Smith, Elder & Co., 1850, p. 423.
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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.