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There is nothing so terrible as activity without insight.

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 world remains ever the same.
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two souls, alas, are housed within my breast, and each will wrestle for the mastery there.
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Die Zeit ist selbst ein Element. Time is itself an element.
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Manners form the great charm of women.
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We can stand only a certain amount of unhappiness anything beyond that annihilates us or passes us by, leaving us apathethetic.
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To be sure, a good work of art can and will have moral consequences, but to demand of the artists moral intentions, means ruiningtheir craft.
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Let no one be like another, yet everyone like the highest. How is this done? Be each one perfect in himself.
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The world of reason is to be regarded as a great and immortal being, who ceaselessly works out what is necessary, and so makes himself lord also over what is accidental.
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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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None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free.
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So, lively brisk old fellow, don't let age get you down. White hairs or not, you can still be a lover.
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It is natural to man to regard himself as the final cause of creation.
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And I have again observed, my dear friend, in this trifling affair, that misunderstandings and neglect occasion more mischief in the world than even malice and wickedness. At all events, the two latter are of less frequent occurrence.
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To appreciate the noble is a gain which can never be torn from us.
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Woe to him who would ascribe something like reason to Chance, and make a religion of surrendering to it.
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Hypotheses are the scaffolds which are erected in front of a building and removedd when the building is completed. They are indispensable to the worker but the worker must not mistake the scaffolding for the building.
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Great possessions and great want of them are both strong temptations.
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One doesn't always lose when one has to do without.
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