blatt – Goethe daily

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blatt — All is leaf. Each day, a single maxim from Johann Wolfgang von Goethe. Nothing more. blatt offers 404 carefully selected maxims and reflections by Goethe, drawn from the original German and paired with English translations by Thomas Bailey Saunders (1906) and new Japanese translations created for this app. The plant on the Vein screen grows and changes with the lunar cycle — sparse at the new moon, flourishing at the full moon — and shifts in color with the seasons. Three languages. One thought a day. — Features: · Today's maxim in German, English, or Japanese · Journal: browse the past 60 days · Vein: a botanical illustration that follows the moon and seasons · Tap the heart to save favorites ※ English translations follow the historical Saunders edition (1906). Some sentences present in the German original may be omitted from the English text. Japanese translations are based on the German original.