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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Age: 82 †
Born: 1749
Born: August 22
Died: 1832
Died: March 22
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All understanding begins in wonder!
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We cannot and must not get rid of nor deny our characteristics. But we can give them shape and direction.
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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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Excellence is rarely found, more rarely valued.
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The world is full of contradiction.
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What is predestination? Answer: God is more powerful and wiser than we are, therefore he deals with us according to his pleasure.
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Old age is never honored among us, but only indulged, as childhood is and old men lose one of the most precious rights of man,--that of being judged by their peers.
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One glance, one word from you gives more pleasure than all the wisdom of this world.
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Since I have heard often enough that everyone in the end has his own religion, nothing seemed more natural to me than to fashion my own.
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What I possess I would gladly retain. Change amuses the mind, yet scarcely profits.
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I have possessed that heart, that noble soul, in whose presence I seemed to be more than I really was, because I was all that I could be.
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Time itself is an element.
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Nothing is more terrible than to see ignorance in action.
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For I have been a man, and that means to have been a fighter.
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If we are out of synch with ourselves, everything is out of synch for us.
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Flowers are the beautiful hieroglyphics of nature with which she indicates how much she loves us.
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Such is the frailty of man that even where he makes the truest and most forcible impression in the memory, in the heart of his beloved, there also he must perish.
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Thou art in the end what thou art. Put on wigs with millions of curls, set thy foot upon ell-high rocks. Thou abidest ever--what thou art.
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Legislators and revolutionaries who promise both equality and liberty are visionaries and charlatans.
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And I have again observed, my dear friend, in this trifling affair, that misunderstandings and neglect occasion more mischief in the world than even malice and wickedness. At all events, the two latter are of less frequent occurrence.
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