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Self-love exaggerates our faults as well as our virtues.
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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The whole history of the Christian Church is a mixture of errors and violence.
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Let mental culture go on advancing, let the natural sciences progress in even greater extent and depth, and the human mind widen itself as much as it desires: beyond the elevation and moral culture of Christianity, as it shines forth in the Gospels, it will not go.
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One should not search for anything behind the phenomena. They themselves are the message.
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The artist who is not also a craftsman is no good but, alas, most of our artists are nothing else.
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