I by no means owe my works to my own wisdom alone, but to a thousand things and persons around me, who provided me with material.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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Inspiration Creativity Influences

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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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German

Time

1832 1830s 19th century

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Writer

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Germany Europe

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Von Goethe, Johann Wolfgang. Conversion with Eckermann and Soret. c. 1832.

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Von Goethe, Johann Wolfgang. Conversations of Goethe with Eickermann and Soret, translated by John Oxenford. Da Capo Press, 1998.

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To know of someone here and there whom we accord with, who is living on with us even in silence-this makes our earthly ball a peopled garden.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship

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Therese

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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship
Medium
Novel
Language
German
Time
1786 1780s 18th century
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Original Citation

Von Goethe, Johann Wolfgang. Wilhelm Meisters Lehrjahre [Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship]. Berlin: Johann Friedrich Unger, 1785-1786, bk. 7, ch. 5.

Current Citation

Von Goethe, Johann Wolfgang. "Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship." Goethe: The Collected Works, edited and translated by Eric A. Blackall. Vol. 9, Princeton University Press, 1995, bk. 7, ch. 5.

Another quote from the 1830s

I will be as harsh as truth and as uncompromising as justice. On this subject I do not wish to think, or speak, or write, with moderation. No! No! Tell a man whose house is on fire to give a moderate alarm; tell him to moderately rescue his wife from the hands of the ravisher; tell the mother to gradually extricate her babe from the fire into which it has fallen; but urge me not to use moderation.

William Lloyd Garrison

To the Public

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Moderation

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William Lloyd Garrison
Source
To the Public The Liberator
Medium
Essay Newspaper
Language
English
Time
1831 1830s 19th century
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Citation

Garrison, William Lloyd. "To the Public." The Liberator, 1 Jan. 1831.

Another quote about Creativity

Imagination labors best in distant fields.

Mark Twain

The Innocents Abroad

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Effects of travel Travel Creativity Imagination Inspiration

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Mark Twain
Source
The Innocents Abroad
Genre
Travel writing
Language
English
Time
1869 1860s 19th century
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Twain, Mark. The Innocents Abroad. Hartford: American Publishing Company, 1869.

Current Citation

Twain, Mark. The Innocents Abroad: or, The New Pilgrims' Progress. Random House Publishing Group, 2003.

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In proportion as the antagonism between classes within the nation vanishes, the hostility of one nation to another will come to an end.

Karl Marx

The Communist Manifesto

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Class conflict End of war Political theory

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Karl Marx
Source
The Communist Manifesto
Medium
Pamphlet
Genre
Political literature Economic literature
Statement Type
Prophecies and predictions
Language
German
Time
1848 1840s 19th century
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Marx, Karl and Friedrich Engels. Manifest der Kommunistischen Partei [Manifesto of the Communist Party]. London, 1848, pt. 2.

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Marx, Karl and Friedrich Engels. The Communist Manifesto, translated by Samuel Moore and edited by Gareth Stedman Jones. Penguin Classics, 2015, pt. 2.