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If you wish to advance into the infinite, explore the finite in all directions.
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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Alas, I have studied philosophy, the law as well as medicine, and to my sorrow, theology studied them well with ardent zeal, yet here I am, a wretched fool, no wiser than I was before.
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But what is your duty? What the day demands. [Ger., Was aber ist deine Pflicht? Die Forderung des Tages.]
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Literature is a fragment of a fragment. Of all that ever happened, or has been said, but a fraction has been written and of this but little is extant.
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The most happy man is he who knows how to bring into relation the end and beginning of his life.
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There is not a single outward mark of courtesy that does not have a deep moral basis.
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Men are so constituted that every one undertakes what he sees another successful in, whether he has aptitude for it or not.
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The greatest thing in this world is not so much where we stand as in what direction we are moving.
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It used to happen, and still happens, to me to take no pleasure in a work of art at the first sight of it, because it is too much for me but if I suspect any merit in it, I try to get at it and then I never fail to make the most gratifying discoveries--to find new qualities in the work itself and new faculties in myself.
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Men in a state of nature, uncivilized nations, children, have a great fondness for colors in their utmost brightness, and especially for yellow-red.
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The trouble is small, the fun is great. [Ger., Die Muh'ist klein, der Spass ist gross.]
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Money lost, something lost. Honor lost, much lost. Courage lost, everything lost-better you were never born
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It is better for you to suffer an injustice than for the world to be without law. Therefore, let everyone submit to the law.
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Wisdom is only found in truth. [Ger., Die Weisheit ist nur in der Wahrheit.]
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Nothing is worse than active ignorance.
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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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Science has been seriously retarded by the study of what is not worth knowing and of what is not knowable.
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A state of true and universal tolerance is best ensured by leaving alone the peculiarities of men and peoples.
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