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Generosity wins favour for everyone, especially when it is accompanied by modesty.

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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People should talk less and draw more. Personally, I would like to renounce speech altogether and, like organic nature, communicate everything I have to say visually.
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True works of art contain their own theory and give us the measurement according to which we should judge them.
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I wait for the morning of my tears
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The day of fortune is like a harvest day, We must be busy when the corn is ripe. [Ger., Ein tag der Gunst ist wie ein Tag der Ernte, Man muss geschaftig sein sobald sie reift.]
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The highest problem of any art is to cause by appearance the illusion of a higher reality.
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The real scholar learns how to evolve the unknown from the known, and draws near the master.
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One mind is enough for a thousand hands.
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Here too it’s masquerade, I find: As everywhere, the dance of mind. I grasped a lovely masked procession, And caught things from a horror show… I’d gladly settle for a false impression, If it would last a little longer, though.
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Each has his own happiness in his hands, as the artist handles the rude clay he seeks to reshape it into a figure yet it is the same with this art as with all others: only the capacity for it is innate the art itself must be learned and painstakingly practiced.
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The little man is still a man.
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Art is a mediator of the unspeakable.
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Few people have the imagination for reality.
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All intelligent thoughts have already been thought what is necessary is only to try to think them again.
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It is in vain that a man of sound mind and cool temper understands the condition of such a wretched being... He can no more communicate his own wisdom to him than a healthy man can instil his strength into the invalid by whose bedside he is seated.
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It is as certain as it is strange that truth and error come from one and the same source. Thus it is that we are often not at liberty to do violence to error, because at the same time we do violence to truth.
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Hatred is active displeasure, envy passive. We need not wonder that envy turns to soon to hatred.
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You acquire a language most readily in the country where it is spoken you study mineralogy best among miners and so with everything else.
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The realization of the self is only possible if one is productive, if one can give birth to one's own potentialities.
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Superstition is part of the poetry of life.
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