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No one has ever learned fully to know themselves.
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 bad thing is that thinking about thought doesn't help at all one has to have it from nature so that the good ideas appear before us like free children of God calling to us: Here we are.
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This being busied with thoughts of immortality is for the noble classes and especially for women with nothing to do. A solid person, though, someone who already intends to be something worthy here, and who therefore has to strive daily, has to struggle and work, gives the world to come a rest.
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The misfortune in the state is, that nobody can enjoy life in peace, but that everybody must govern and in art, that nobody will enjoy what has been produced, but that every one wants to reproduce on his own account.
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Love, whose power youth feels, is not suitable for the elderly, just as little as anything that presupposes productivity. It is rare that productivity lasts through the years.
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The theater has often been at variance with the pulpit they ought not to quarrel. How much is it to be wished that in both the celebration of nature and of God were intrusted to none but men of noble minds.
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Be always resolute with the present hour. Every moment is of infinite value.
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It is better to be deceived by one's friends than to deceive them.
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The realization of the self is only possible if one is productive, if one can give birth to one's own potentialities.
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A life without love, without the presence of the beloved, is nothing but a mere magic-lantern show. We draw out slide after slide, swiftly tiring of each, and pushing it back to make haste for the next.
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The greatest piece of folly is that every man thinks himself compelled to hand down what people think they have known.
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Do not, I beg you, look for anything behind phenomena. They are themselves their own lesson.
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Self-knowledge comes from knowing other men.
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What is fruitful alone is true.
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He is dead in this world who has no belief in another.
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Dispel not, the happy delusions of children.
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As in Rome there is, apart from the Romans, a population of statues, so apart from this real world there is a world of illusion, almost more potent, in which most men live.
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If in the infinite you want to stride, Just walk in the finite to every side.
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For what one has in black and white, One can carry home in comfort.
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The ground that a good man treads is hallowed.
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Painting and tattooing the body is a return to animalism.
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