Maxims and Reflections

<p>A great book of 1413 maxims from various Goethe works and sketchings</p><p><br></p><p>Some samplers:</p><p>Wisdom is to be found only in truth</p><p>The smallest hair casts its shadow</p><p>Hindus in the desert vow never to eat fish</p><p>We all live on the past and perish by the past</p><p>We very seldom satisfy ourselves; all the more consoling therefore to have satisfied others</p><p>What is esoteric is damaging when it tries to be exoteric</p><p>A thinking man's greatest happiness is to have fathomed what can be fathomed and to revere in silence what cannot be fathomed</p><p><br></p><p>Includes many which are fleshed out to encompass paragraphs of thought: art science philosophy love. Goethe's renaissance man spirit is on show. (John Hughes)</p><p><br></p>