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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Age: 82 †
Born: 1749
Born: August 22
Died: 1832
Died: March 22
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Sceptics are yet the most credulous.
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All our knowledge is symbolic.
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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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Clever people are always the best conversations lexicon.
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So dear night the half of life is, And the fairest half indeed.
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The intelligent man finds almost everything ridiculous, the sensible man hardly anything.
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A wounded heart can with difficulty be cured. [Ger., Doch ein gekranktes Herz erholt sich schwer.]
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The eye doesn't see any shapes, it sees only what is differentiated through light and dark or through colors.
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New inventions can and will be made however, nothing new can be thought of that concerns moral man. Everything has already been thought and said which at best we can express in different forms and give new expressions to.
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The best fortune that can fall to a man is that which corrects his defects and makes up for his failings.
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Noble be man, Helpful and good! For that alone Sets him apart From every other creature On earth.
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Someday perhaps the inner light will shine forth from us, and the we'll need no other light.
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We're really up against it, we poor women: A bachelor's a hard thing to convert
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There are two things parents should give their children roots and wings. Roots to give them bearing and a sense of belonging, but also wings to help free them from constraints and prejudices and give them other ways to travel (or rather, to fly).
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Whatever you cannot understand, you cannot possess.
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Girls we love for what they are young men for what they promise to be.
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If you inquire what people are like here, I must answer, The same as everywhere.
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There is nothing in life so irrational, that good sense and chance may not set it to rights nothing so rational, that folly and chance may not utterly confound it.
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I could never have known so well how paltry men are, and how little they care for really high aims, if I had not tested them by my scientific researches. Thus I saw that most men only care for science so far as they get a living by it, and that they worship even error when it affords them a subsistence.
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Nature is the living, visible garment of God.
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