Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes
We accept every person in the world as that for which he gives himself out, only he must give himself out for something. We can put up with the unpleasant more easily than we can endure the insignificant.
Topics
Existentialism
Acceptance
Giving
Identity
Individuality
Insignificance
Personhood
Relevance
Self Expression
Self Perception
Significance
World
Accepting
Meaningful Existence
Personal Significance
Personal Value
Self Representation
Self-Definition
Self-Identity
Self-Presentation
Unpleasantness
Citations
von Goethe, Johann Wolfgang. Elective Affinities. Translated by James Anthony Froude and R. Dillon Boylan, Henry G. Bohn, 1854, p. 153.
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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.