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Whatever you cannot understand, you cannot possess.
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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All our knowledge is symbolic.
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Superstition is rooted in a much deeper and more sensitive layer of the psyche than skepticism.
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Very few people love others for what they are rather, they love what they lend them, their own selves, their own idea of them.
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What matters in art is not thinking but making.
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If we meet someone who owes us a debt of gratitude, we remember the fact at once. How often we can meet someone to whom we owe a debt of gratitude without thinking about it at all!
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Ohne Hast, aber ohne Rast. - Without haste, but without rest.
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I come more and more to the conclusion that one must take the side of the minority which is always the more intelligent one.
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Translators can be considered as busy matchmakers who praise as extremely desirable a half-veiled beauty. They arouse an irresistible yearning for the original.
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Accepting good advice means nothing other than to strengthen one's own ability.
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There are two things parents should give their children roots and wings. Roots to give them bearing and a sense of belonging, but also wings to help free them from constraints and prejudices and give them other ways to travel (or rather, to fly).
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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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Nature! We are enveloped and embraced by her, incapable of emerging from her and incapable of entering her more deeply. Unbidden and unwarned, she receives us into the circuits of her dance, drifting onward with us herself, until we grow tired and drop from her arms.
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One can stand anything except a succession of ordinary days
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What is the path? There is no path. On into the unknown.
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