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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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He who wishes to exert a useful influence must be careful to insult nothing. Let him not be troubled by what seems absurd, but concentrate his energies to the creation of what is good. He must not demolish, but build. He must raise temples where mankind may come and partake of the purest pleasure.
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Science arose from poetry... when times change the two can meet again on a higher level as friends.
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Willing is not enough, we must do.
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I've often heard it said a preacher might learn with a comedian for a teacher.
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To have more, you must first be more.
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Reason looks at necessity as the basis of the world reason is able to turn chance in your favor and use it. Only by having reasonremain strong and unshakable can we be called a god of the earth.
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If the world does improve on the whole, yet youth must always begin anew, and go through the stages of culture from the beginning.
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On the pinnacle of success man does not stand firm long.
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The most damaging prejudice consists of banning any kind of investigation of nature.
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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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There are men who never err, because they never propose anything rational.
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The world of reason is to be regarded as a great and immortal being, who ceaselessly works out what is necessary, and so makes himself lord also over what is accidental.
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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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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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Human life-everybody lives it, but only to a few is it known.
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If you call a thing bad you do little, if you call a thing good you do much
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Piety is not an end, but a means: a means of attaining the highest culture by the purest tranquility of soul. Hence it may be observed that those who set up piety as an end and object are mostly hypocrites.
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