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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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Whatever you cannot understand, you cannot possess.
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Nothing is worse than active ignorance.
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What is now the foliage moving? Air is still, and hush'd the breeze, Sultriness, this fullness loving, Through the thicket, from the trees. Now the eye at once gleams brightly, See! the infant band with mirth Moves and dances nimbly, lightly, As the morning gave it birth, Flutt'ring two and two o'er earth.
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To live as one likes is plebian the noble man aspires to order and law.
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Each has his own happiness in his hands, as the artist handles the rude clay he seeks to reshape it into a figure yet it is the same with this art as with all others: only the capacity for it is innate the art itself must be learned and painstakingly practiced.
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Boldness has power, magic and genius in it.
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If a poet would work politically, he must give himself up to a party and so soon as he does that, he is lost as a poet.
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Once you have missed the first buttonhole, you'll never manage to button up.
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Does not man lack the force at the very point where he needs it most? And when he soars upward in joy, or sinks down in suffering, is not checked in both, is he not returned again to the dull, cold sphere of awareness, just when he was longing to lose himself in the fullness of the infinite.
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Secrecy has many advantages, for when you tell someone the purpose of any object right away, they often think there is nothing to it.
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Nothing is more damaging to the truth than an old error.
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A reasonable man needs only to practice moderation to find happiness.
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It is better for you to suffer an injustice than for the world to be without law. Therefore, let everyone submit to the law.
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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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In politics as on a sickbed men toss from side to side in hope of lying more comfortably.
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The world is so great and rich, and life so full of variety, that you can never lack occasions for poems.
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How circumscribed is woman's destiny!
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Nothing is good for a nation but that which arises from its own core and its own general wants, without apish imitation of another.
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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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