The best genius is that which absorbs and assimilates everything without doing the least violence to its fundamental destiny--that which we call character--but rather improving it and enhancing it as far as possible...Through training, instruction, contemplation, success, failure, advancement, hindrance, and ever more contemplation, the organs of man, in their instinctive, free activity, unite the acquired with the innate to produce a harmonious unity that astonished the world.

Famous Quotes / Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: "The best genius is that which absorbs and assimilates everything without doing the least violence to its fundamental destiny--that which we call character--but rather improving it and enhancing it as far as possible...Through training, instruction, contemplation, success, failure, advancement, hindrance, and ever more contemplation, the organs of man, in their instinctive, free activity, unite the acquired with the innate to produce a harmonious unity that astonished the world."

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Absorbs	Acquired	Activity	Advancement
Assimilates	Astonished	Call	Characterbut
Contemplation	Destinythat	Doing	Enhancing
Everything	Failure	Free	Fundamental
Genius	Harmonious	Hindrance	Improving
Innate	Instinctive	Instruction	Least
Organs	Possiblethrough	Produce	Rather
Success	Training	Unite	Unity
Violence	Without	World

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The best genius is that which absorbs and assimilates everything without doing the least violence to its fundamental destiny--that which we call character--but rather improving it and enhancing it as far as possible...Through training, instruction, contemplation, success, failure, advancement, hindrance, and ever more contemplation, the organs of man, in their instinctive, free activity, unite the acquired with the innate to produce a harmonious unity that astonished the world. - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe