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The art of living rightly is like all arts it must be learned and practiced with incessant care.
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 highest goal that man can achieve is amazement.
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Do not give in too much to feelings. A overly sensitive heart is an unhappy possession on this shaky earth.
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It is easier to perceive error than to find truth, for the former lies on the surface and is easily seen, while the latter lies in the depth, where few are willing to search for it.
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Everyone holds his fortune in his own hands, like a sculptor the raw material he will fashion into a figure. But it's the same with that type of artistic activity as with all others: We are merely born with the capability to do it. The Skill to mold the material into what we want must be learned and attentively cultivated.
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Happy the man who early learns the wide chasm that lies between his wishes and his powers.
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God help us -- for art is long, and life so short.
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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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How shall we plan, that all be fresh and new-- Important matter yet attractive too? [Ger., Wie machen wir's, dass alles frisch und neu Und mit Bedeutung auch gefallig sei?]
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For just when ideas fail, a word comes in to save the situation.
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The march of intellect, which licks all the world into shape, has even reached the devil.
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There is nothing more frightful than an active ignorance. [Ger., Es ist nichts schrecklicher als eine thatige Unwissenheit.]
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Fools and wise men are equally harmless. It is the half-fools and half-wise that are dangerous.
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Analysis and synthesis are both as necessary to the thinking spirit as inspiration and expiration to the organism.
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