Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes
One must keep repeating the Truth.
Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von. The Maxims and Reflections of Goethe. Translated by Thomas Bailey Saunders, Macmillan and Co., 1893, p. 75.
Speaking of the separation of church and state
Spain was then controlled in different parts by Christians and Arab Muslims. In Arab oratory repetition then, and even today, is taken as emphasis and intensity o belief and truth. Christian oratory—especially religious rhetoric—also emphasized repetition.
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.