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

Language

German

Time

1832 1830s 19th century

Occupation

Writer

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Germany Europe

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Original Citation

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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Life teaches us to be less harsh with ourselves and with others.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Iphigenia in Tauris

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Pylades

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Iphigenia in Tauris
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Language
German
Time
1787 1780s 18th century
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Von Goethe, Johann Wolfgang. Iphigenie auf Tauris [Iphigenia in Taurus]. 1779, Ducal private theater, Weimar, Germany, act 4, sc. 4.

Current Citation

Von Goethe, Johann Wolfgang. "Iphigenia in Tauris." Goethe: The Collected Works: Verse Plays and Epic, edited by Cyrus Hamlin and Frank Ryder. Vol. 8, Princeton University Press, 1995, act 4, sc. 4.

Another quote from the 1830s

Our country is the world — our countrymen are all mankind.

William Lloyd Garrison

Quoted in The Liberator

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Citizens of the world Globalism
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William Lloyd Garrison
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The Liberator
Medium
Newspaper
Language
English
Time
1837 1830s 19th century
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Garrison, William Lloyd. Motto of The Liberator. 1831.

Another quote about Creativity

You see things; and you say "Why?" But I dream things that never were; and I say "Why not?"

George Bernard Shaw

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Thinking outside the box Thinking big Creativity
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The Serpent

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George Bernard Shaw
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In the Beginning: B.C. 4004 (In the Garden of Eden) Back to Methuselah
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Language
English
Time
1921 1920s 20th century
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Shaw, George Bernard. "In the Beginning: B.C. 4004." Back to Methuselah. Penguin, 1988, pt. 1, act 1. Originally published by Constable/Brentano's, 1921.

Another quote originally in German

Nothing on earth consumes a man more quickly than the passion of resentment.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Ecce Homo

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Resentment Envy

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Friedrich Nietzsche
Source
Ecce Homo
Genre
Philosophical literature
Language
German
Time
1908 1900s 20th century
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Original Citation

Nietzsche, Friedrich. Ecce homo: Wie man wird, was man ist [Ecce Homo: How One Becomes What One Is]. Leipzig: Insel-Verlag, 1908.

Current Citation

Nietzsche, Friedrich. Ecce Homo: How One Becomes What One Is, translated by Duncan Large. Oxford University Press, 2009.