Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes

The bad thing is that thinking about thought doesn't help at all; one has to have it from nature so that the good ideas appear before us like free children of God calling to us: Here we are.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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• The bad thing is that thinking about thought doesn't help at all; one has to have it from nature so that the good ideas appear before us like free children of God calling to us: Here we are.

  

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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  • Children Of God