Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Maxims and Reflections (1833), maxim 1031
• Original text:
Das Klassische nenne ich das Gesunde und das Romantische das Kranke.
• Original text:
Das Klassische nenne ich das Gesunde und das Romantische das Kranke.
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What is Classical is healthy; what is Romantic is sick.
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe on Romanticism
What It Means
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• Original text:
Das Klassische nenne ich das Gesunde und das Romantische das Kranke." to mean that wisdom is timeless.
Source: Wikiquote: "Romanticism" (Quotes)
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About Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
What you can do, or dream you can, begin it,