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Men show their character in nothing more clearly than what they think laughable.
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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A genuine work of art usually displeases at first sight, as it suggests a deficiency in the spectator.
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All one needs to do is declare oneself free and one will immediately feel dependent. If you dare to declare yourself dependent, you feel independent.
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Lose this day loitering 'Twill be the same old story, Tomorrow and the next, Even more dilatory. Whatever you would do, Or dream of doing, begin it! Boldness has power, genius, and magic in it. Begin it now.
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One must not criticize that which is common since it remains always the same.
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To every one [Nature] appears in a form of his own. She hides herself in a thousand names and terms, and is always the same.
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One alone does not help, but rather he who unites with many at the right moment.
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Piety, like nobility, has its aristocracy.
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To create something you must be something.
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It is a very hard and troublesome thing to dispose of whole, half, and quarter-mistakes to sift them and assign the portion of truth to its proper place.
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Everything is simpler than one can imagine, and yet complicated and inter-twined beyond comprehension.
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It is in the half fools and the half wise that the greatest danger lies.
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The arts are the salt of the earth as salt relates to food, the arts relate to technology.
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Here too it’s masquerade, I find: As everywhere, the dance of mind. I grasped a lovely masked procession, And caught things from a horror show… I’d gladly settle for a false impression, If it would last a little longer, though.
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Certain books seem to be written, not that we might learn from them, but in order that we might see how much the author knows.
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Conscience is the virtue of the observers not the agents of action
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The person of analytic or critical intellect finds something ridiculous in everything. The person of synthetic or constructive intellect, in almost nothing.
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Culture which smooth the whole world licks, Also unto the devil sticks.
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Judge a man's character by what he finds ridiculous.
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