There are few things of greater advantage than learning to appreciate the strong points of your opponents.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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Making arguments Empathy Open-mindedness

Author

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Source

Maxims and Reflections

Language

German

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Writer

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Germany Europe

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Original Citation

Von Goethe, Johann Wolfgang. Maxim no. 396. c. 1832.

Current Citation

Von Goethe, Johann Wolfgang. Maxims and Reflections, translated by Elizabeth Stopp, edited by Peter Hutchinson. Penguin Books, 2005, no. 396.

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The sum which two married people owe to one another defies calculation. It is an infinite debt, which can only be discharged through all eternity.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Elective Affinities

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Marriage
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Source
Elective Affinities
Medium
Novel
Language
German
Time
1808 1800s 19th century
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Original Citation

Von Goethe, Johann Wolfgang. Die Wahlvenwandtschaften [Elective Affinities]. Tubingen: J. G. Cottaische Buchhandlung, 1809, bk. 1, ch. 9.

Current Citation

Von Goethe, Johann Wolfgang. Elective Affinities, translated by David Constantine. Oxford University Press, 2008, bk. 1, ch. 9.

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The human body is the best picture of the human soul.

Ludwig Wittgenstein

Philosophical Investigations

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Human body Body and soul

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Ludwig Wittgenstein
Source
Philosophical Investigations
Genre
Philosophical literature
Language
German
Time
1953 1950s 20th century
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Original Citation

Wittgenstein, Ludwig. Philosophische Untersuchungen [Philosophical Investigations]. Suhrkamp, 1953, pt. 2.

Current Citation

Wittgenstein, Ludwig. Philosophical Investigations, translated by G. E. M. Anscombe, et. al., edited by P. M. S. Hacker and Joachim Schulte. Wiley Blackwell, 2009, pt. 2.