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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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Thank God when He lays a burden on thee, and thank Him when He takes it off.
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If you lay duties upon people and give them no rights, you must pay them well.
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The history of science is science itself the history of the individual, the individual.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Give me the benefit of your convictions, if you have any but keep your doubts to yourself, for I have enough of my own.
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The flowers of life are but illusions. How many fade away and leave no trace.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
God help us -- for art is long, and life so short.
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When an idea is wanting, a word can always be found to take its place.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
As man is, so is his God. And thus is God oft strangely odd.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Nothing is more damaging to the truth than an old error.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
To a valet no man is a hero. [Ger., Es gibt fur den Kammerdiener keiner Helden.]
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The beautiful is a phenomenon which is never apparent of itself, but is reflected in a thousand different works of the creator.
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To have more, you must first be more.
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When two men quarrel, who owns the cooler head is the more to blame.
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What is not started today is never finished tomorrow.
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It is not enough to take steps which may someday lead to a goal each step must be itself a goal and a step likewise.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Writing history is a method of getting rid of the past.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
The world of reason is to be regarded as a great and immortal being, who ceaselessly works out what is necessary, and so makes himself lord also over what is accidental.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
The mortal race is far too weak not to grow dizzy on unwonted brights. [Ger., Das sterbliche Geschlecht ist viel zu schwach In ungewohnter Hohe nicht zu schwindeln.]
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Beware of a man of one book.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
The most damaging prejudice consists of banning any kind of investigation of nature.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
