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The flowers of life are but illusions. How many fade away and leave no trace.
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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When the healthy nature of man acts as a whole, when he feels himself to be in the world as in a great, beautiful, noble, and valued whole, when harmonious ease affords him a pure and free delight, then the universe, if it could experience itself, would exult, as having attained its goal, and admire the climax of its own becoming and essence.
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I don't know a greater advantage, than to appreciate the worth of an enemy.
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Ignorant men raise questions that wise men answered a thousand years ago.
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When a wife has a good husband, it is easily seen on her face.
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Since Time is not a person we can overtake when he is gone, let us honor him with mirth and cheerfulness of heart while he is passing.
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The most foolish of all errors is for clever young men to believe that they forfeit their originality in recognizing a truth which has already been recognized by others.
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But one must know where one stands, and where the others wish to go.
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The modern age has a false sense of superiority, because of the great mass of data at its disposal. But the valid criterion of distinction is rather the extent to which man knows how to form and master the material at his command.
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Every solution of a problem is a new problem.
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Stupidity is without anxiety.
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We are never deceived we deceive ourselves.
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All truly wise thoughts have been thought already thousands of times but to make them truly ours, we must think them over again honestly, until they take root in our personal experience.
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To live within limits. To want one thing. Or a few things very much and love them dearly. Cling to them, survey them from every angle. Become one with them - that is what makes the poet, the artist, the human being.
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It is better to do the smallest thing in the world than to hold half an hour to be too small a thing.
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The whole history of the Christian Church is a mixture of errors and violence.
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When we treat man as he is, we make him worse than he is when we treat him as if he already were what he potentially could be, we make him what he should be.
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One cannot develop taste from what is of average quality but only from the very best.
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