(1773), translated by Albert Schweizer in Goethe: Five Studies (1961), Beacon Press, p. 53

I hold to faith in the divine love — which, so many years ago for a brief moment in a little corner of the earth, walked about as a man bearing the name of Jesus Christ — as the foundation on which alone my happiness rests.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

What It Means

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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

About Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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