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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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As in Rome there is, apart from the Romans, a population of statues, so apart from this real world there is a world of illusion, almost more potent, in which most men live.
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Tolerance should really be only a temporary attitude it must lead to recognition. To tolerate means to offend.
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At the moment of commitment the entire universe conspires to assist you.
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No one would talk much in society if they knew how often they misunderstood others.
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Names are but noise and smoke, Obscuring heavenly light.
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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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You shall abstain, shall abstain. That is the eternal song.
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Since Time is not a person we can overtake when he is gone, let us honor him with mirth and cheerfulness of heart while he is passing.
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Oral delivery aims at persuasion and making the listener believe they are converted. Few persons are capable of being convinced the majority allow themselves to be persuaded.
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Objects in pictures should so be arranged as by their very position to tell their own story.
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Hatred is a heavy burden. It sinks the heart deep in the breast, and lies like a tombstone on all joys.
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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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Certain faults are necessary to the individual if he is to exist.
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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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If a poet would work politically, he must give himself up to a party and so soon as he does that, he is lost as a poet.
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Great thoughts and a pure heart, that is what we should ask from God.
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Happiness is a ball after which we run wherever it rolls, and we push it with our feet when it stops.
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In all times it is only individuals that have advanced science, not the age.
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Woe to him who would ascribe something like reason to Chance, and make a religion of surrendering to it.
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Truth has to be repeated constantly, because Error also is being preached all the time, and not just by a few, but by the multitude. In the Press and Encyclopaedias, in Schools and Universities, everywhere Error holds sway, feeling happy and comfortable in the knowledge of having Majority on its side.
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