/lit/ - Literature

>>23226601
>Splendid edifices and apartments are for princes and kingdoms. Those who live in them feel at ease and contented, and desire nothing further.
>To my own nature this is quite repugnant. In a splendid abode, like that which I had at Carlsbad, I am at once lazy and inactive. On the contrary, a small residence, like this poor apartment in which we now are, and where a sort of disorderly order—a sort of gipsy-fashion—prevails, suits me exactly. It allows my inner nature full liberty to act, and to create from itself alone.

His science (Btfoed Anglos and Newton) and conception of reality is better than his art yet somehow he is known for his literature. WTF?

talentless hack overrated

>>19445758
Nothing, it grow every year as more people become more educated. The only reason those men say that is because they grew up in a time that reinforced a religious understating of reality. They where practically the first people to do science so they had not yet over come there illusions of faith. Also its not a movement just the expansion of truth.

>“Romanticism is sickness, Classicism is health.”
What did he mean by this?

>>19112007
Yes, the Saxons and the Franks (along with the other German tribes like the Swabians and Bavarians) have produced the best literature. Glad we agree.

>>18142504
>As a 6 foot tall, 6 inch dicked and mediocre looking schizoid, I've given up on happiness and seek to produce some memorable writing instead. Would I give up all my efforts for a harem of prime 16 year old pussy? Without hesitation, and any man claiming otherwise is deluded.
wow this is literally me, now if only I could actually get good at writing and stop being cringe.

Now that the dust has settled... was Goethe overrated?

Is any of Goethe's scientific work worth reading?

Is there a hardcover edition of Princeton's The Essential Goethe I can buy somewhere or is it only available in paperback?

I've heard people say that his Iphigenia is his best play besides Faust. If so, what's so great about it and how is it different from Euripides original?

Im looking for the source of a quote from Goethe, where he says "a man must either become a whole, or join a whole". Im looking for the book of origin for this quote, does anyone know?

>>15115038
>Go-thee