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Is it Goethe's word on The Beautiful and Good?

Asked by arzikass (109points) January 28th, 2017

I’ve read that Goethe has said this sentence; “The beautiful is higher than the Good; The beautiful includes in it the Good.”
However I could not find the reference book of the quotation. Does anyone know the reference in German or English?

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It seems Goethe did say this as Thomas Carlyle quotes it in Selections from Carlyle. He doesn’t say where it comes from though. Maybe someone who speaks German can help?

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Yes dear flutherother, it is quoted by Carlyle and as far as I found, later, Oscar Wilde mentioned it as a sentence by Goethe.

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