as quoted from Poliakov, L. (1974). The Aryan myth : a history of racist and nationalist ideas in Europe p. 195

By way of a personal compromise, he became an adept of the "noble and pure" wisdom of the Parsees as a means of escaping from the "narrow circle of Hebraic-Rabbinic thought and of reaching the depth and amplitude of Sanskrit".

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

What It Means

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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

About Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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