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Painting and tattooing the body is a return to animalism.
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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Let us live in as small a circle as we will, we are either debtors or creditors before we have had time to look around.
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Who longs in solitude to live, Ah! soon his wish will gain: Men hope and love, men get and give, and leave him to his pain.
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The greatest difficulties lie where we are not looking for them.
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Truth must be repeated again and again, because error is constantly being preached round about.
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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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No prudent antagonist thinks light of his adversaries.
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If in the infinite you want to stride, Just walk in the finite to every side.
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Go to foreign countries and you will get to know the good things one possesses at home.
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A man is really alive only when he delights in the good-will of others.
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He who cannot love must learn to flatter.
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The light is there, and colors surround us. However, if there were no light nor colors in our own eye, we wouldn't perceive such things outside of us.
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My poor head is in such a whirl, my mind is all in bits.
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The artist may be well advised to keep his work to himself till it is completed, because no one can readily help him or advise him with it... but the scientist is wiser not to withhold a single finding or a single conjecture from publicity.
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The history of a man is in his character.
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Behavior is a mirror in which every one shows his image. [Ger., Das Betragen ist ein Spiegel in welchem jeder sein Bild zeigt.]
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Let your trouble be Light will follow dark Though the heaven falls You may hear the lark.
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The modern age has a false sense of superiority, because of the great mass of data at its disposal. But the valid criterion of distinction is rather the extent to which man knows how to form and master the material at his command.
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Whatever Nature undertakes, she can only accomplish it in a sequence. She never makes a leap.
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Someone criticized an elderly man for wooing young women. He replied that that was the only way to rejuvenation, which was, afterall, everybody's wish.
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My counsel is, to force nothing, and rather to trifle and sleep away all unproductive days and hours, than on such days to compose something that will afterwards give no pleasure.
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