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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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You will find the most pronounced hatred of other nations on the lowest cultural levels. There is, though, a level where the hatred disappears completely and where one so to speak stands above the nations and where one experiences fortune or misfortune of a neighboring country as if they had happened to one's own.
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Knowing is not enough we must apply. Willing is not enough we must do.
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Stones are mute teachers they silence the observer, and the most valuable lesson we learn from them we cannot communicate.
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I nothing had, and yet enough for youth--Joy in Illusion, ardent thirst for Truth. Give unrestrained, the old emotion, The bliss that touched the verge of pain, The strength of Hate, Love's deep devotion,--O, give me back my youth again!
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The rainbow mirrors human aims and action. Think, and more clearly wilt thou grasp it, seeing Life is but light in many-hued reflection.
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The field of experience is the whole universe in all directions. Theory remains shut up within the limits of human faculties.
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Men are so constituted that every one undertakes what he sees another successful in, whether he has aptitude for it or not.
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Make the most of time, it flies away so fast yet method will teach you to win time.
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True works of art are a manifestation of the higher laws of nature.
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The highest goal that man can achieve is amazement.
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Old age is never honored among us, but only indulged, as childhood is and old men lose one of the most precious rights of man,--that of being judged by their peers.
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Let us not dream that reason can ever be popular. Passions, emotions, may be made popular but reason remains ever the property of an elect few.
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The mob has nothing to lose, everything to gain.
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I curse all negative purism that tells me not to use a word from another language that either expresses something that my own language cannot or does that in a more delicate manner.
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A man may twist as he pleases, and do what he pleases, but he inevitably comes back to the track to which nature has destined him.
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Energy will do anything that can be done in the world and no talents, no circumstances, no opportunities will make a two-legged animal a man without it.
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