It's hard to overstate the importance of Goethe to German culture and literature. He was a brilliant man with a lively mind. One nonfiction work of his I quite

It's hard to overstate the importance of Goethe to German culture and literature. He was a brilliant man with a lively mind. One nonfiction work of his I quite enjoyed is his Theory of Colours[1]. While many dismiss it as "wrong" because it isn't a correct physical theory of wavelengths and spectrum, that's not the point. It's really about the perception of color, which is psychology and not physics. On a similar note, Elective Affinities[2] is a novel about human relationships that is inspired by chemistry. To this day even in English we refer to two persons as having "chemistry" together. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theory_of_Colours https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theory_of_Colours [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elective_Affinities https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elective_Affinities