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Nothing is more fearful than imagination without taste.
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 whole history of the Christian Church is a mixture of errors and violence.
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Beauty is a manifestation of secret natural laws, which otherwise would have been hidden from us forever.
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The mediator of the inexpressible is the work of art.
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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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If you wish a wise answer, you must put a rational question.
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It matters little whether a man be mathematically or philologically or artistically cultivated, so he be but cultivated.
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What is fruitful alone is true.
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