To live in an idea is to treat the impossible as if it were possible." In. Do you not know any Prophets? At least in my clothes.... the environment and with the Language of our Age? Don't you know anyone, to whom the Divine would be revealed in the lowest and highest forms of the Common, and then through it would be again prophetically revealed? In whose inspired melody, even in our rag-assembly and rag-combustion days, Human Life Begins Again , At least from a distance ,. to be divine? You don't know anyone like that? I know him and call him' Goethe. Carlyle Summer 1794 . Goethe met Schiller in Jena . This meeting, described by Goethe in the note 'The Happy Event', proved decisive in the fates of not only his philosophical self-consciousness, but also 'symbolically' in the fates of Western thought. Before this meeting, Goethe was as if in a philosophical paradise or, in his own words, 'in a philosophical primitive state', not at all embarrassed by his 'suit of Adam?' in walking through the garden of thoughts. Schiller, a tried (or rather captured in the mind) Kantian, was destined to play the role of a tempter .. We reached his house, the conversation drew me to him: here I enthusiastically expounded to him the metamorphosis of plants and, with a few characteristic strokes, recreated the symbolic plant with a pen before his eyes. He listened to all this and watched with great interest, with undoubted understanding; but when I finished, shook his head and said, "This is not an experience, this is an idea". I was embarrassed, somewhat annoyed, for the point that separated us was most accurately indicated by this. Again the statement from the article "On Grace and Dignity" was recalled, the old anger was going to boil; however, I restrained myself and replied: "I can only be pleased that I have ideas without knowing it, and even see them with my eyes". Schiller ... objected to it as an educated Kantian, and when my stubborn realism gave more than one reason for the most lively objections, it had to fight a lot, and then a truce was declared. Neither of us could consider ourselves a winner, both considered themselves BOOK OF NONE AGAIN! Goethe's complete German-language collection of natural science works occupies 10 volumes... You can read more about the modernity of Goethe's natural sciences here Sassian. The philosophical worldview of Goethe The formation and transformation of organic beings Justification of the plan Explanation of the intention Preface to the content The metamorphosis of plants The author tells the story of his botanical studies The fate of the handwritten text The fate of the printed text The discovery of a remarkable predecessor The happy event The metamorphosis of plants . Second experience Reflection on morphology in general Experience of general comparative teaching On the intermaxillary bone of man and animals Experience on the shape of the body of animals First outline of a general introduction to comparative anatomy, Coming from osteology 00 Lectures on the first three chapters of the outline of a general introduction to comparative anatomy, Based on the osteology of Ina and Radius Tibia and fibula Lazy and thick-skinned , pictured, Described and compared by E. D'Alton Fossil Bull . Rodent skeletons depicted and compared by d'Alton Structure of the skull of six vertebrae Principes de philosophie zoologique. Discutés en mars 1830 au sein de L'académie royale des sciences To the teaching of color (chromatics) Preface An outline of the teaching of color (First, didactic part Confessions of the author General questions of natural science Nature Explanation to the aphoristic article'Nature? Experience as an intermediary between object and subject Interverbal Influence of the new philosophy Contemplative ability of judgment A significant stimulus from a single apt word Philosophy of Nature From the aphorisms and sayings of Goethe Friendly appeal Applications Afterword by the translator Goethe-saturalist. Article I. and . Kanayeva Short synchronistic table List of natural works of Goethe Comments List of scientists, writers and artists mentioned in Goethe's writings . 536 List of plants mentioned by Goethe in his botanical works Main Latin terms and words found in Goethe's anatomical articles Literature about Goethe the naturalist List of illustrations