About the book
A collection of short paragraphs and aphorisms by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, grouped under Life and Character, Literature and Art, and Science and Nature. Beside his thoughts on art, ethics and natural science, the maxims record his reactions to books, to chance encounters and to his administrative work.
Memorise chief executive Ed Cooke said he carried Goethe's aphorisms in his coat while traveling the world at 18, reading them again and again, and that they had a fundamental effect on his life.
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Ed Cooke (CEO/Memorise)
I was traveling around the world at the age of 18, which is what people in England do between high school and university. In my coat, I had Goethe's aphorisms, his short little thoughts in my pocket. I read and reread this book... It's actually had quite a fundamental [impact] on my life because these are his little snipets of wisdom on almost any imaginable topic, and all of them are brilliant. There are things like, 'The company of women is schooling in good manners', or 'Boldness has genius, power and magic'. Ones you don't remember in their precise form, but which nonetheless act as little micro filters for interpreting reality.
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