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The highest goal that man can achieve is amazement.
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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Frankfurt/Main
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The highest cannot be spoken it can only be acted.
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When the healthy nature of man acts as a whole, when he feels himself to be in the world as in a great, beautiful, noble, and valued whole, when harmonious ease affords him a pure and free delight, then the universe, if it could experience itself, would exult, as having attained its goal, and admire the climax of its own becoming and essence.
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Beauty and Genius must be kept afar if one would avoid becoming their slave.
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To the world you might be one person, but to one person, you might be the world. Kindness is the golden chain by which our world is bound together.
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Who never ate his bread in sorrow, Who never spent the darksome hours Weeping, and watching for the morrow,- He knows you not, ye heavenly Powers.
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Talents are nurtured best in solitude, But character on life's tempestuous seas!
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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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I hate all explanations they who make them deceive either themselves or the other party,-generally both.
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I always seek the good that is in people and leave the bad to Him who made mankind and knows how to round off the corners.
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The mediator of the inexpressible is the work of art.
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The artist has a twofold relation to nature he is at once her master and her slave.
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An angel! Nonsense! Everybody so describes his mistress and yet I find it impossible to tell you how perfect she is, or why she is so perfect: suffice it to say she has captivated all my senses.
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You can easily judge the character of a man by how he treats those who can do nothing for him.
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Love can do much, but duty more.
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Culture which smooth the whole world licks, Also unto the devil sticks.
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Sin writes histories, goodness is silent. [Ger., Das Uebel macht eine Geschichte und das Gute keine.]
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Thinking is easy, acting is difficult, and to put one's thoughts into action is the most difficult thing in the world.
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The beginning of faith is the beginning of fruitfulness but the beginning of unbelief, however glittering, is empty.
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Several classical sayings that one likes to repeat had quite a different meaning from the ones later times attributed to them.
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