Maxims and Reflections

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A great book of 1413 maxims from various Goethe works and sketchings

Some samplers:

Wisdom is to be found only in truth

The smallest hair casts its shadow

Hindus in the desert vow never to eat fish

We all live on the past and perish by the past

We very seldom satisfy ourselves; all the more consoling, therefore, to have satisfied others

What is esoteric is damaging when it tries to be exoteric

A thinking man’s greatest happiness is to have fathomed what can be fathomed and to revere in silence what cannot be fathomed

Includes many which are fleshed out to encompass paragraphs of thought: art, science, philosophy, love. Goethe’s renaissance man spirit is on show. (John Hughes)