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There is no patriotic art and no patriotic science.
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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When I say to the Moment flying 'Linger a while -- thou art so fair!' Then bind me in thy bonds undying, And my final ruin I will bear!
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Whoever, in middle age, attempts to realize the wishes and hopes of his early youth, invariably deceives himself. Each ten years of a man's life has its own fortunes, its own hopes, its own desires.
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I am fully convinced that the soul is indestructible, and its activity will continue through eternity.
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When Nature begins to reveal her open secret to a man, he feels an irresistible longing for her worthiest interpreter, Art.
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To witness two lovers is a spectacle for the gods.
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You will find the most pronounced hatred of other nations on the lowest cultural levels. There is, though, a level where the hatred disappears completely and where one so to speak stands above the nations and where one experiences fortune or misfortune of a neighboring country as if they had happened to one's own.
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It is not given to us to grasp the truth, which is identical with the divine, directly. We perceive it only in reflection, in example and symbol, in singular and related appearances. It meets us as a kind of life which is incomprehensible to us, and yet we cannot free ourselves from the desire to comprehend 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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I always seek the good that is in people and leave the bad to Him who made mankind and knows how to round off the corners.
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Beauty and Genius must be kept afar if one would avoid becoming their slave.
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The Bible grows more beautiful, as we grow in our understanding of it.
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For usually people resist as long as they can to dismiss the fool they harbor in their bosom, they resist to confess a major mistake or to admit a truth that makes them despair.
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If youth is a fault, it is one that one gets rid of soon enough.
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Nature does not suffer her veil to be taken from her, and what she does not choose to reveal to the spirit, thou wilt not wrest from her by levers and screws.
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A man is really alive only when he delights in the good-will of others.
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None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free.
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Thank God when He lays a burden on thee, and thank Him when He takes it off.
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If you are convinced of a matter, you must take sides or you don't deserve to succeed.
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