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Nature is the living, visible garment of God.

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 first and last thing required of genius is the love of truth. [Ger., Das erste und letzte, was vom Genie gefordert wird, ist Wahreits-Liebe.]
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We are never deceived we deceive ourselves.
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One is never satisfied with the portrait of a person that one knows.
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We must not take the faults of our youth with us into old age, for age brings along its own defects.
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Nothing is more terrible than to see ignorance in action.
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Nothing is more damaging to the truth than an old error.
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It is equally a mistake to hold one's self too high, or to rate one's self too cheap.
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All that is transitory is but a metaphor.
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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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Oral delivery aims at persuasion and making the listener believe they are converted. Few persons are capable of being convinced the majority allow themselves to be persuaded.
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The present moment is a powerful goddess.
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On every mountain height is rest.
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I reverence the individual who understands distinctly what he wishes who unweariedly advances, who knows the means conducive to his object, and can seize and use them.
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Treat a person as they are, they will remain so. Treat a person the way that person can be and is capable of being and that person will become as he or she can be and should be.
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You shall abstain, shall abstain. That is the eternal song.
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Whoso is content with pure experience and acts upon it has enough of truth.
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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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