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Updated: June 3, 2025

So Luther's sincere idiomatic German, such language is this: 'Hilf lieber Gott, wie manchen Jammer habe ich gesehen, dass der gemeine Mann doch so gar nichts weiss von der christlichen Lehre! no more proves a power of style in German literature, than Cobbett's sinewy idiomatic English proves it in English literature.

Matthew Arnold - Celtic Literature

"Sie sehn dich nicht, denn Schemen sehn sie nur." Goethe borrowed the term from a passage of Plutarch's, but he has made the idea half Platonic, half legendary. Amiel, however, seems rather to have in his mind Faust's speech in Scene vii. than the speech of Mephistopheles in Scene v: "In eurem Namen, Muetter, die ihr thront Im Graenzenlosen, ewig einsam wohnt, Und doch gesellig!

Henri Frédéric Amiel - Amiel's Journal