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If a man writes a book, let him set down only what he knows. I have guesses enough of my own.

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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It is related of an Englishman that he hanged himself to avoid the daily task of dressing and undressing.
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The suffering may be moral or physical and in my opinion it is just as absurd to call a man a coward who destroys himself, as to call a man a coward who dies of a malignant fever.
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We always hope, and in all things it is better to hope than to despair.
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Beware of a man of one book.
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The highest problem of any art is to cause by appearance the illusion of a higher reality.
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The history of mankind is his character.
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Wer fremde Sprachen nicht kennt, weiss nichts von seiner eigenen.He who is ignorant of foreign languages, knows not his own.
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Art is a mediator of the unspeakable.
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It is not enough to have knowledge one must apply it. It is not enough to have wishes one must also accomplish it.
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That which is eternal in Woman lifts us above.
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Talent is nurtured in solitude character is formed in the stormy billows of the world. [Ger., Es bildet ein talent sich in der Stille, Sich ein Charakter in dem Strom der Welt.]
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Every day I observe more and more the folly of judging of others by ourselves and I have so much trouble with myself, and my own heart is in such constant agitation, that I am well content to let others pursue their own course, if they only allow me the same privilege.
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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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Zweck sein selbst ist jegliches Tier. Each animal is an end in itself.
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The mediator of the inexpressible is the work of art.
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All professional men are handicapped by not being allowed to ignore things which are useless.
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The intelligent man finds almost everything ridiculous, the sensible man hardly anything.
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Nothing will change the fact that I cannot produce the least thing without absolute solitude.
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There is nothing more fearful than imagination without taste. [Ger., Es ist nichts furchterlicher als Einbildungskraft ohne Geschmack.]
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