Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes

Where a man has a passion for meditating without the capacity of thinking, a particular idea fixes itself fast, and soon creates a mental disease.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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• Where a man has a passion for meditating without the capacity of thinking, a particular idea fixes itself fast, and soon creates a mental disease.

  

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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  • Passion
  • Disease