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I've often heard it said a preacher might learn with a comedian for a teacher.
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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But what is your duty? What the day demands. [Ger., Was aber ist deine Pflicht? Die Forderung des Tages.]
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Does not man lack the force at the very point where he needs it most? And when he soars upward in joy, or sinks down in suffering, is not checked in both, is he not returned again to the dull, cold sphere of awareness, just when he was longing to lose himself in the fullness of the infinite.
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In all times it is only individuals that have advanced science, not the age.
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Unlike grown ups, children have little need to deceive themselves.
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Let us live in as small a circle as we will, we are either debtors or creditors before we have had time to look around.
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I curse all negative purism that tells me not to use a word from another language that either expresses something that my own language cannot or does that in a more delicate manner.
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English plays, Atrocious in content, Absurd in form, Objectionable in action, Execrable EnglishTheatre.
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To live in a great idea means to treat the impossible as though it were possible. It is just the same with a strong character and when an idea and a character meet, things arise which fill the world with wonder for thousands of years.
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The art of governing is a great metier, requiring the whole man, and it is therefore not well for a ruler to have too strong tendencies for other affairs.
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Ye great teachers: listen to what you say!
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Our senses don't deceive us: our judgment does
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If you don't know foreign languages, you don't know anything about your own.
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Doesn't surprise me that Christ our Lord preferred to live with whores and sinners, seeing I go in for that myself.
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A wounded heart can with difficulty be cured. [Ger., Doch ein gekranktes Herz erholt sich schwer.]
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If one doesn't know one's own country, one doesn't have standards for foreign countries.
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And those whom once my song had cheered and gladdened, If still they live, rove through the world now saddened.
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The one who acts is always without conscience nobody has a conscience but the contemplative person.
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The spectacle of Nature is always new, for she is always renewing the spectators. Life is her most exquisite invention and death is her expert contrivance to get plenty of life.
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It is not given to us to grasp the truth, which is identical with the divine, directly. We perceive it only in reflection, in example and symbol, in singular and related appearances. It meets us as a kind of life which is incomprehensible to us, and yet we cannot free ourselves from the desire to comprehend it.
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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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