What is Classical is healthy; what is Romantic is sick.
• Maxim 1031, trans. Stopp
• Maxim 1031, trans. Stopp
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Das Klassische nenne ich das Gesunde und das Romantische das Kranke.
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
What It Means
This is a placeholder explanation generated by the low-overhead model. It interprets "Das Klassische nenne ich das Gesunde und das Romantische das Kranke." in the context of "What is Classical is healthy; what is Romantic is sick.
• Maxim 1031, trans. Stopp" to mean that wisdom is timeless.
Source: Wikiquote: "Johann Wolfgang von Goethe" (Quotes, Maxims and Reflections (1833): Full text in German. Translation by Elisabeth Stopp (Penguin, 1998) follows Max Hecker's canonical German edition (1907). Bailey Saunders' selection, The Maxims and Reflections of Goethe (1893), translates 590 of Goethe's 1413 maxims.)
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About Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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