now with peculiar force and subtlety.
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distinguished a man of letters.
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me the honour to select the maxims on Science, but he was further
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whom, for most readers, selection is so necessary as it is with Goethe;
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conduct and method in a manner admitting of no mistake or uncertainty.
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is plain, I think, that they are below the others in value and interest;
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endorse, or to regard as in any way commensurate with Goethe's genius;
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the name of their author.
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should be sorry to place at the foot of any of these pages. I have
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hundred and eighty on Science.
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speak of its nature and value.
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appeared only in the last ten, while some are posthumous.
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been incorporated with two treatises on branches of that subject.
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_Nachgelassene Werke_ in 1833, or in the quarto edition of 1836.
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put the work before his own public in an orderly and convenient form.
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the waters of oblivion, which sooner or later overwhelm all magazines.
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Meanwhile I put forward this version.
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the Chancellor von Müller, he could not remember having composed it;
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that he can hardly be forced to yield the credit of it to another.
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been written on Goethe, it is very much better to read Goethe himself.
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testimony to his wonderful anticipations of later theories.
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writer whatever, even though it be Montaigne or Bacon or Shakespeare;
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to-day may easily become the poisonous suggestion of to-morrow.
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by belittling human endeavour. Goethe shows us a more excellent way.
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