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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Age: 82 †
Born: 1749
Born: August 22
Died: 1832
Died: March 22
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Wind is the loving Wooer of waters Wind blends together Billows all-foaming. Spirit of man, Thou art like unto water! Fortune of man, Thou art like unto wind!
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People always fancy that we must become old to become wise but, in truth, as years advance, it is hard to keep ourselves as wise as we were.
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Nothing is more disgusting than the majority: because it consists of a few powerful predecessors, of rogues who adapt themselves, of weak who assimilate themselves, and the masses who imitate without knowing at all what they want.
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Only law can give us freedom.
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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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The eternal feminine doth draw us upward. [Ger., Das Ewig-Weibliche zieht uns hinan.]
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Light has called forth one organ to become its like, and thus the eye is formed by the light and for the light so that the inner light may emerge to meet the outer light.
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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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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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Strike the dog dead, it's but a critic!
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We blame equally him who is too proud to put a proper value on his own merit and him who prizes too highly his spurious worth.
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People are so constituted that everybody would rather undertake what they see others do, whether they have an aptitude for it or not.
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The bed of flowers Loosens amain, The beauteous snowdrops Droop o'er the plain. The crocus opens Its glowing bud, Like emeralds others, Others, like blood. With saucy gesture Primroses flare, And roguish violets, Hidden with care And whatsoever There stirs and strives, The Spring's contented, If works and thrives.
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Clever people are always the best conversations lexicon.
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What by a straight path cannot be reached by crooked ways is never won.
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It is natural to man to regard himself as the final cause of creation.
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The best benefit we derive from history is the enthusiasm it excites.
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All intelligent thoughts have already been thought what is necessary is only to try to think them again.
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Viewed from the summit of reason, all life looks like a malignant disease and the world like a madhouse.
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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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