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Strike the dog dead, it's but a critic!
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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Nothing is more disgusting than the majority: because it consists of a few powerful predecessors, of rogues who adapt themselves, of weak who assimilate themselves, and the masses who imitate without knowing at all what they want.
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Sin writes histories, goodness is silent. [Ger., Das Uebel macht eine Geschichte und das Gute keine.]
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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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It is natural to man to regard himself as the final cause of creation.
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Truth is a torch, but a terrific one therefore we all try to reach it with closed eyes, lest we should be scorched.
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Piety, like nobility, has its aristocracy.
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Superstition belongs to the essence of mankind and takes refuge, when one thinks one has suppressed it completely, in the strangest nooks and crannies once it is safely ensconced there, it suddenly reappears.
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Light has called forth one organ to become its like, and thus the eye is formed by the light and for the light so that the inner light may emerge to meet the outer light.
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To know where a thing is we must have found it.
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We must always change, renew, rejuvenate ourselves otherwise, we harden.
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Whatever is the object of a saint's hope is the subject of his prayer.
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Science and art belong to the whole world, and before them vanish the barriers of nationality.
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When toward the Devil's Hose we tread, Woman's a thousand steps behind. [Ger., Denn geht es zu des Bosen Haus Das Weib hat tausend Schritt voraus.]
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Belief is not the beginning of knowledge - it is the end.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
If God had wanted me otherwise, He would have created me otherwise.
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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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Yet he who grasps the moment's gift, He is the proper man.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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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Help me to discover Thy truth, O Lord, and preserve me from those who have already found it
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
A great deal may be done by severity, more by love, but most by clear discernment and impartial justice.
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