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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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The bad thing is that thinking about thought doesn't help at all one has to have it from nature so that the good ideas appear before us like free children of God calling to us: Here we are.
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This is the highest wisdom that I own freedom and life are earned by those alone who conquer them each day anew.
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How shall we plan, that all be fresh and new-- Important matter yet attractive too? [Ger., Wie machen wir's, dass alles frisch und neu Und mit Bedeutung auch gefallig sei?]
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Death is a commingling of eternity with time in the death of a good man, eternity is seen looking through time.
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The greatest genius will not be worth much if he pretends to draw exclusively from his own resources
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Every solution of a problem is a new problem.
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What is part of you, you cannot get rid of, even if you were to throw it away.
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All sects seem to me to be right in what they assert, and wrong in what they deny.
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Men in a state of nature, uncivilized nations, children, have a great fondness for colors in their utmost brightness, and especially for yellow-red.
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He who is wise puts aside all claims which may dissipate his attention, and confining himself to one branch excels in that.
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If society gives up the right to impose the death penalty, then self-help will appear again and personal vendettas will be around the corner.
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two souls, alas, are housed within my breast, and each will wrestle for the mastery there.
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Truth is a torch, but a terrific one therefore we all try to reach it with closed eyes, lest we should be scorched.
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Woe to falsehood! it affords no relief to the breast, like truth it gives us no comfort, pains him who forges it, and like an arrow directed by a god flies back and wounds the archer.
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Man errs, till he has ceased to strive.
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I reverence the individual who understands distinctly what he wishes who unweariedly advances, who knows the means conducive to his object, and can seize and use them.
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Higher aims are in themselves more valuable, even if unfulfilled, than lower ones quite attained.
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Is not the core of nature in the heart of man?
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Behavior is a mirror in which every one shows his image. [Ger., Das Betragen ist ein Spiegel in welchem jeder sein Bild zeigt.]
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Mediocrity has no greater consolation than in the thought that genius is not immortal.
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