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Life is the childhood of our immortality.
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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Whenever I hear people talking about liberal ideas, I am always astounded that men should love to fool themselves with empty sounds. An idea should never be liberal it must be vigorous, positive, and without loose ends so that it may fulfill its divine mission and be productive.
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The finished man, you know, is difficult to please a growing mind will ever show you gratitude. --Faust 1, lines 182-3
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Rejoice that you have still have a long time to live, before the thought comes to you that there is nothing more in the world to see.
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Art is long, life short, judgment difficult, opportunity transient. To act is easy, to think is hard to act according to our thought is troublesome. Every beginning is cheerful: the threshold is the place of expectation.
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A person places themselves on a level with the ones they praise.
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Wisdom is found only in truth.
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No prudent antagonist thinks light of his adversaries.
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None are so hopelessly enslaved, as those who falsely believe they are free. The truth has been kept from the depth of their minds by masters who rule them with lies. They feed them on falsehoods till wrong looks like right in their eyes.
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Superstition is part of the poetry of life.
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Blood is a juice of rarest quality. [Ger., Blut ist ein ganz beondrer Saft.]
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What is the universal? The single case. What is the particular? Millions of cases.
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Yes, I have finally arrived to this Capital of the World! I now see all the dreams of my youth coming to life... Only in Rome is it possible to understand Rome.
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Whoever strikes at marriage either by word or act undermines the foundation of all moral society.
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Then to the depths! - I could as well say height: It's all the same.
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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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A vi'let on the meadow grew, That no one saw, that no one knew, It was a modest flower. A shepherdess pass'd by that way-- Light footed, pretty and so gay That way she came, Softly warbling forth her lay.
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Someone criticized an elderly man for wooing young women. He replied that that was the only way to rejuvenation, which was, afterall, everybody's wish.
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Never by reflection, but only by doing is self- knowledge possible to one.
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As long as you are not aware of the continual law of Die and Be Again, you are merely a vague guest on a dark Earth.
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The art of living rightly is like all arts it must be learned and practiced with incessant care.
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