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Whoever wishes to keep a secret must hide the fact that he possesses one.
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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Higher yet and higher out of clouds and night, nearer yet and nearer rising to the light - light, serene and holy where my soul may rest, purified and lowly, sanctified and blest.
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All truly wise thoughts have been thought already thousands of times but to make them truly ours, we must think them over again honestly, until they take root in our personal experience.
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Man's highest merit always is, as much as possible, to rule external circumstances and as little as possible to let himself be ruled by them.
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Noble be man, Helpful and good! For that alone Sets him apart From every other creature On earth.
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To me the external existence of my soul is proved from my idea of activity. If I work incessantly until my death, nature will give me another form of existence when the present can no longer sustain my spirit.
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Man knows himself only insofar as he knows the world, becoming aware of it if only within himself, and of himself self only within it. Each new subject, well observed, opens up within us a new organ of thought.
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If a good person does you wrong, act as though you had not noticed it. If we practice and eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth, soon the wholeworld will be blind and toothless.
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Only law can give us freedom.
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Certain faults are necessary to the individual if he is to exist.
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I am certain that I have been here as I am now a thousand times before, and I hope to return a thousand times... Man is a dialogue between nature and God. On other planets this dialogue will doubtless be of a higher and profounder character. What is lacking is Self-Knowledge. After that the rest will follow.
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Talents are nurtured best in solitude, But character on life's tempestuous seas!
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Nothing will change the fact that I cannot produce the least thing without absolute solitude.
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Gray are all the theories, But green is the tree of life.
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There is nothing outside of us that is not at the same time in us, and as the external world has its colors the eye, too, has colors.
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Humans fear reason, but they ought to fear stupidity- for reason can be hard, but stupidity can be fatal.
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A man's shortcomings are taken from his epoch his virtues and greatness belong to himself.
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The world is so full of simpletons and madmen, that one need not seek them in a madhouse.
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It is opposition that makes us productive.
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Only that type of story deserves to be called moral that shows us that one has the power within oneself to act, out of the conviction that there is something better, even against one's own inclination.
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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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