Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, remarks to Johann Peter Eckermann (25 July 1827), quoted in Conversations of Goethe with Eckermann and Soret, Vol. I, translated by John Oxenford (1850), p. 441

It is admirable in Carlyle that, in his judgment of our German authors, he has especially in view the mental and moral core as that which is really influential. Carlyle is a moral force of great importance. There is in him much for the future.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe on Thomas Carlyle

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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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