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Particular Quotes by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
- Every man must form himself as a particular being, seeking, however, to attain that general idea of which all mankind are constituents.
- Where a man has a passion for meditating without the capacity of thinking, a particular idea fixes itself fast, and soon creates a mental disease.
- The poet should seize the Particular, and he should, if there be anything sound in it, thus represent the Universal.
- Basic characteristics of an individual organism: to divide, to unite, to merge into the universal, to abide in the particular, to transform itself, to define…
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