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A distracted existence leads us to no goal
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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One mind is enough for a thousand hands.
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Look at a man the way he is and he only becomes worse, but look at him as if he were what he could be, then he becomes what he should be.
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When the healthy nature of man acts as a whole, when he feels himself to be in the world as in a great, beautiful, noble, and valued whole, when harmonious ease affords him a pure and free delight, then the universe, if it could experience itself, would exult, as having attained its goal, and admire the climax of its own becoming and essence.
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People always fancy that we must become old to become wise but, in truth, as years advance, it is hard to keep ourselves as wise as we were.
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For just when ideas fail, a word comes in to save the situation.
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The history of mankind is his character.
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If I love you, what business is it of yours?
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The more one knows, the more one comprehends, the more one realizes that everything turns in a circle.
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The experiences show us just as we are they make us see our own defects.
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What right those who govern have to govern they don't question, they just govern. Whether the people have a right to depose them that doesn't concern them. All they are concerned with is that the people will not be tempted to depose them.
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All our knowledge is symbolic.
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To blow is not to play on the flute you must move the fingers. [Ger., Blasen ist nicht floten, ihr musst die Finger bewegen.]
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Ye great teachers: listen to what you say!
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Perfection is the measure of heaven, and the wish to be perfect the measure of man.
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Yet here I stand poor fool what more, not one wit wiser than before.
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Certain defects are necessary for the existence of individuality.
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Nothing is true, but that which is simple.
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Humor is one of the elements of genius--admirable as an adjunct but as soon as it becomes dominant, only a surrogate for genius.
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If all these devils really exist it proves there must be angels, too.
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