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
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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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Source: Wikiquote: "Thomas Carlyle" (Quotes about Carlyle, A–L)
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