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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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Man, be he who he may, experiences a last piece of good fortune and a last day. [Ger., Der Mensch erfahrt, er sei auch wer er mag, Ein letztes Gluck und einen letzten Tag.]
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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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Life is not anything, but an opportunity for something.
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The person born with a talent they are meant to use will find their greatest happiness in using it.
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Everything that we call Invention or Discovery in the higher sense of the word is the serious exercise and activity of an original feeling for truth, which, after a long course of silent cultivation, suddenly flashes out into fruitful knowledge.
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Only the heart without a stain knows perfect ease. [Ger., Ganz unbefleckt geniesst sich nur das Herz.]
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Then to the depths! - I could as well say height: It's all the same.
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We cannot and must not get rid of nor deny our characteristics. But we can give them shape and direction.
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One can't dull a project better than by discussing it repeatedly.
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The close and thoughtful observer more and more learns to recognize his limitations. He realizes that with the steady growth of knowledge more and more new problems keep on emerging.
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One must not criticize that which is common since it remains always the same.
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Life teaches us to be less harsh with ourselves and with others.
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Love can do much, but duty more.
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The present moment is a powerful goddess.
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I could never have known so well how paltry men are, and how little they care for really high aims, if I had not tested them by my scientific researches. Thus I saw that most men only care for science so far as they get a living by it, and that they worship even error when it affords them a subsistence.
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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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The eternal feminine draws us on high.
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Man usually believes, if only words he hears, That also with them goes material for thinking. [Ger., Gewohnlich glaubt der Mensch, wenn er nur Worte hort, Es musse sich dabei doch auch was denken.]
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Of the book of books most wondrous is the tender book of love.
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What a day it is when we must envy the men in their graves.
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