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Knowing is not enough we must apply. Willing is not enough we must do.
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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A judge who cannot punish, in the end associates themselves with the criminal.
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It is as certain as it is strange that truth and error come from one and the same source. Thus it is that we are often not at liberty to do violence to error, because at the same time we do violence to truth.
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The greatest thing in this world is not so much where we stand as in what direction we are moving.
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God could cause us considerable embarrassment by revealing all the secrets of nature to us: we should not know what to do for sheer apathy and boredom.
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I am amazed to see how deliberately I have entangled myself step by step. To have seen my position so clearly, and yet to have acted so like a child!
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Oh how sweet it is to hear one's own convictions from another's lips.
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Don't give us your doubts, gives us your certainties, for we have doubts enough of our own.
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Just trust yourself and you'll learn the art of living.
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The true poet is called to take in the splendor of the world and for that reason will always be inclined to praise rather than tofind fault.
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Say what we may of the inadequacy of translation, yet the work is and will always be one of the weightiest and worthiest undertakings in the general concerns of the world.
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A man is really alive only when he delights in the good-will of others.
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As soon as any one belongs to a narrow creed in science, every unprejudiced and true perception is gone.
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The one who always strives, That one can be redeemed.
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Then to the depths! - I could as well say height: It's all the same.
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