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What is my life if I am no longer useful to others.
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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The theater has often been at variance with the pulpit they ought not to quarrel. How much is it to be wished that in both the celebration of nature and of God were intrusted to none but men of noble minds.
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My days are as happy as those reserved by God for his elect and whatever be my fate hereafter, I can never say that I have not tasted joy— the purest joy of life.
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Let there be truth between us.
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The solution of every problem is another problem
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Every man must form himself as a particular being, seeking, however, to attain that general idea of which all mankind are constituents.
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One spares old people just as one spares children.
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The rainbow mirrors human aims and action. Think, and more clearly wilt thou grasp it, seeing Life is but light in many-hued reflection.
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It is a maxim of wise government to treat people not as they should be but as they actually are.
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Napoleon for the sake of a good name broke in pieces half the world.
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Since Time is not a person we can overtake when he is gone, let us honor him with mirth and cheerfulness of heart while he is passing.
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A great revolution is never the fault of the people, but of the government.
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Few people have the imagination for reality.
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Beautiful is greater than Good, for it includes the Good.
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A mind, once formed, is never suited after, One yet in growth will ever grateful be. [Ger., Wer fertig ist, dem ist nichts recht zu machen, Ein Werdender wird immer dankbar sein.]
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The world is for thousands a freak show the images flicker past and vanish the impressions remain flat and unconnected in the soul. Thus they are easily led by the opinions of others, are content to let their impressions be shuffled and rearranged and evaluated differently.
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To live within limits. To want one thing. Or a few things very much and love them dearly. Cling to them, survey them from every angle. Become one with them - that is what makes the poet, the artist, the human being.
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Willing is not enough, we must do.
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Daring ideas are like chessmen moved forward they may be beaten, but they may start a winning game.
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The realization of the self is only possible if one is productive, if one can give birth to one's own potentialities.
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Never by reflection, but only by doing is self- knowledge possible to one.
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