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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Age: 82 †
Born: 1749
Born: August 22
Died: 1832
Died: March 22
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As man is, so is his God. And thus is God oft strangely odd.
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God made man simple, but how he changed and got complicated is hard to say.
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Secrecy has many advantages, for when you tell someone the purpose of any object right away, they often think there is nothing to it.
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Time is a strange thing. It is a whimsical tyrant, which in every century has a different face for all that one says and does.
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The works of Lavoisier and his associates operated upon many of us at that time like the Sun's rising after a night of moonshine: but Chemistry is now betrothed to the Mathematics, and is in consequence grown somewhat shy of her former admirers.
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First and last, what is demanded of genius is love of truth.
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A person is never happy till their vague strivings has itself marked out its proper limitations.
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Human life runs its course in the metamorphosis between receiving and giving.
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What by a straight path cannot be reached by crooked ways is never won.
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Where a man has a passion for meditating without the capacity of thinking, a particular idea fixes itself fast, and soon creates a mental disease.
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Courage and modesty are the most unequivocal of virtues, for they are of a kind that hypocrisy cannot imitate they too have this quality in common, that they are expressed by the same color.
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There is nothing more fearful than imagination without taste. [Ger., Es ist nichts furchterlicher als Einbildungskraft ohne Geschmack.]
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We are the slaves of objects around us, and appear little or important according as these contract or give us room to expand.
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As a man is, so is his God therefore God was so often an object of mockery. [Ger., Wie einer ist, so ist sein Gott, Darum ward Gott so oft zu Spott.]
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Is this the destiny of man? Is he only happy before he has acquired his reason or after he has lost it?
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No one knows what he is doing so long as he is acting rightly but of what is wrong one is always conscious.
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For usually people resist as long as they can to dismiss the fool they harbor in their bosom, they resist to confess a major mistake or to admit a truth that makes them despair.
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I examine my own being, and find there a world, but a world rather of imagination and dim desires, than of distinctness and living power. Then everything swims before my senses, and I smile and dream while pursuing my way through the world.
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The arts are the salt of the earth as salt relates to food, the arts relate to technology.
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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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