Tuesday, November 26, 2024

“Although Goethe was intimately connected to the social and cultural life of his time, he also knew how to maintain his individuality. His principle was to take in only as much of the world as he could process. Whatever he could not respond to in a productive way he chose to disregard. In other words, he was an expert at ignoring things.”

RUDIGER SAFRANSKI Goethe: Life as a Work of Art

A lot of wisdom packed into four sentences.