Goethe is miscellaneous
Written on July 21, 2007
To achieve holism we must try to connect up all the fragments of our different thoughts and draw them into a living whole, and in so doing we enrich the meaning of each individual element. ‘We are aware of a huge crowd of things; the soul can grasp extraordinarily diverse links between these things. Souls that have the inner strength to open up the world begin to organize these links, so as to think more easily; and they begin to take pleasure in putting two and two together and establishing connections between diverse elements of their world.’ (p. 307)
The above passage from Love, Life, Goethe: Lessons of the Imagination from the Great German Poet
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