I love those who yearn for the impossible.

Den lieb' ich, der Unmögliches begehrt.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Faust

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Topic

Thinking big

Speaker

Manto

Author

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Source

Faust

Medium

Play

Genre

Tragedy (play) Tragedy

Language

German

Time

1808 1800s 19th century

Occupation

Writer

From

Germany Europe

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Original Citation

Von Goethe, Johann Wolfgang. Faust. Der Tragödie zweiter Teil [Faust. The Tragedy's Second Part]. 1832, act 2.

Current Citation

Von Goethe, Johann Wolfgang. Faust: Part Two, translated by David Luke. Oxford University Press, 2008, act 2.

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Doubt grows with knowledge.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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Doubt and skepticism

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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Statement Type
Paradox
Language
German
Time
1819 1810s 19th century
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Von Goethe, Johann Wolfgang. "Individual Points." Ueber Kunst und Altersthum [On Art and Antiquity]. 1826, vol. 5, issue 3.

Current Citation

Von Goethe, Johann Wolfgang. Maxims and Reflections, edited by Peter Hutchinson, translated by Elisabeth Stopp. Penguin Classics, 1999, no. 281.

Another quote from the 1800s

The government of the United States has been emphatically termed a government of laws, and not of men.

John Marshall

Marbury v. Madison

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Topic
Rule of law American politics

Author

John Marshall
Source
Marbury v. Madison
Medium
Supreme Court opinion Legal opinion
Genre
Legal writing
Language
English
Time
1803 1800s 19th century
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Citation

Marshall, John. United States, Supreme Court. Marbury v. Madison. United States Reports, vol. 5, 24 Feb. 1803, pp. 137-180. Justia, supreme.justia.com/cases/federal/us/5/137/.

Another quote originally in German

The history of the world is none other than the progress of the consciousness of freedom.

G.W.F. Hegel

Philosophy of History

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Intellectual progress Nature of history

Author

G.W.F. Hegel
Source
Philosophy of History
Genre
Philosophical literature Historical literature
Language
German
Time
1832 1830s 19th century
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Hegel, G. W. F. Vorlesungen über die Philosophie der Weltgeschichte [Lectures on the Philosophy of World History]. c. 1830, University of Berlin, Berlin, Germany.

Current Citation

Hegel, G. W. F. Lectures on the Philosophy of World History, translated by H. B. Nisbet. Cambridge University Press, 1981.