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Everything is both simpler than we can imagine and more entangled than we can conceive.
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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The best benefit we derive from history is the enthusiasm it excites.
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The man of understanding finds everything laughable.
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Are we not also married to conscience which we would love to get rid of often enough since it is more bothersome than a man or a woman ever could become?
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Our modern wars make many unhappy while they last and none happy when they are over.
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Every beginning is cheerful.
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Progress has not followed a straight ascending line, but a spiral with rhythms of progress and retrogression, of evolution and dissolution.
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Everything factual is, in a sense, theory. The blue of the sky exhibits the basic laws of chromatics. There is no sense in looking for something behind phenomena: they are theory.
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Aptitudes are assumed, they should become accomplishments. That is the purpose of all education.
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We rather confess our moral errors, faults, and crimes than our ignorance.
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