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If God had wanted me otherwise, He would have created me otherwise.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Age: 82 †
Born: 1749
Born: August 22
Died: 1832
Died: March 22
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Go to foreign countries and you will get to know the good things one possesses at home.
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Mozart is a human incarnation of the divine force of creation.
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The field of experience is the whole universe in all directions. Theory remains shut up within the limits of human faculties.
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Everything that we call Invention or Discovery in the higher sense of the word is the serious exercise and activity of an original feeling for truth, which, after a long course of silent cultivation, suddenly flashes out into fruitful knowledge.
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A genuine work of art usually displeases at first sight, as it suggests a deficiency in the spectator.
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There is repetition everywhere, and nothing is found only once in the world.
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He who is wise puts aside all claims which may dissipate his attention, and confining himself to one branch excels in that.
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Fools and wise men are equally harmless. It is the half-fools and half-wise that are dangerous.
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The man of understanding finds everything laughable.
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No one has ever learned fully to know themselves.
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Of the truly creative no one is ever master it must be left to go its own way.
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He who does not see the whole world in his friends, does not deserve that the world should hear of him.
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A flippant, frivolous man may ridicule others, may controvert them, scorn them but he who has any respect for himself seems to have renounced the right of thinking meanly of others.
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What is now the foliage moving? Air is still, and hush'd the breeze, Sultriness, this fullness loving, Through the thicket, from the trees. Now the eye at once gleams brightly, See! the infant band with mirth Moves and dances nimbly, lightly, As the morning gave it birth, Flutt'ring two and two o'er earth.
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The further one advances in experience, the closer one comes to the unfathomable the more one learns to utilize experience, the more one recognizes that the unfathomable is of no practical value.
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One is never satisfied with a portrait of persons whom one knows. That is why I have always pitied portraitists. One demands so seldom of others the impossible, but demands just that of the portraitists.
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Superstition is rooted in a much deeper and more sensitive layer of the psyche than skepticism.
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