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Everywhere, we learn only from those whom we love.
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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An angel! Nonsense! Everybody so describes his mistress and yet I find it impossible to tell you how perfect she is, or why she is so perfect: suffice it to say she has captivated all my senses.
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One needs only to get old to become milder I don't see anyone make a mistake I hadn't also made.
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The Bible grows more beautiful, as we grow in our understanding of it.
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Superstition is part of the poetry of life.
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How can one learn to know oneself? Never by introspection, rather by action.
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Man's restlessness makes him strive.
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Ambition and love are the wings of great actions.
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I am certain that I have been here as I am now a thousand times before, and I hope to return a thousand times... Man is a dialogue between nature and God. On other planets this dialogue will doubtless be of a higher and profounder character. What is lacking is Self-Knowledge. After that the rest will follow.
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The history of science is science itself the history of the individual, the individual.
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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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The world of reason is to be regarded as a great and immortal being, who ceaselessly works out what is necessary, and so makes himself lord also over what is accidental.
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He loves not who does not see the faults of the beloved as virtues.
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Nature is the living, visible garment of God.
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Everything which is properly business we must keep carefully separate from life. Business requires earnestness and method life must have a freed handling.
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Perseverance is a silent power that grows irresistibly greater with time.
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In art it's not the thinking that does the job, but making.
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The miller imagines that the corn grows only to make his mill turn.
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