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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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To appreciate the noble is a gain which can never be torn from us.
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The summit charms us, the steps to it do not with the heights before our eyes, we like to linger in the plain. It is only a part of art that can be taught but the artist needs the whole. He who is only half instructed speaks much and is always wrong who knows it wholly is content with acting and speaks seldom or late.
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No one knows what he is doing so long as he is acting rightly but of what is wrong one is always conscious.
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The little man is still a man.
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Painting and tattooing the body is a return to animalism.
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And those whom once my song had cheered and gladdened, If still they live, rove through the world now saddened.
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Age does not make us childish, as some say it finds us true children.
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Flowers are the beautiful hieroglyphics of nature with which she indicates how much she loves us.
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Toleration ought in reality to be merely a transitory mood. It must lead to recognition. To tolerate is to affront.
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To live within limits. To want one thing. Or a few things very much and love them dearly. Cling to them, survey them from every angle. Become one with them - that is what makes the poet, the artist, the human being.
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To every one [Nature] appears in a form of his own. She hides herself in a thousand names and terms, and is always the same.
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Whatever necessity lays upon thee, endure whatever she commands, do.
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To create something you must be something.
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It is commonly the personal character of a writer which gives him his public significance. It is not imparted by his genius. Napoleon said of Corneille, Were he living I would make him a king but he did not read him. He read Racine, yet he said nothing of the kind of Racine.
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My inheritance how lordly wide and fair Time is my fair seed-field, to Time I'm heir.
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What is fruitful alone is true.
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Enjoy when you can, and endure when you must.
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He who knows no foreign languages knows nothing of his own.
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Normally, the sciences distance themselves from life and the return to it via a detour.
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I've often heard it said a preacher might learn with a comedian for a teacher.
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