We can't form our children on our own concepts; we must take them and love them as God gives them to us." - Meaning and context.">

We can't form our children on our own concepts; we must take them and love them as God gives them to us.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

What It Means

This is a placeholder explanation generated by the low-overhead model. It interprets "We can't form our children on our own concepts; we must take them and love them as God gives them to us." in the context of "Hermann und Dorothea (1797)" to mean that wisdom is timeless.

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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

About Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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