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Then to the depths! - I could as well say height: It's all the same.

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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Age: 82 †
Born: 1749
Born: August 22
Died: 1832
Died: March 22
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I am very anxious to please the public, particularly as it lives and lets live.
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Hypotheses are the scaffolds which are erected in front of a building and removedd when the building is completed. They are indispensable to the worker but the worker must not mistake the scaffolding for the building.
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Some books seem to have been written, not to teach us anything, but to let us know that the author has known something.
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If there is confusion in your head and in your heart, what more do you want! A man who no longer loves and no longer errs should have himself buried straight away.
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I wish the crowd to feel itself well treated, Especially since it lives and lets me live.
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What matters in art is not thinking but making.
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And those whom once my song had cheered and gladdened, If still they live, rove through the world now saddened.
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There is nothing more frightful than for a teacher to know only what his scholars are intended to know.
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All theory, dear friend, is gray, but the golden tree of life springs ever green.
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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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It matters little whether a man be mathematically or philologically or artistically cultivated, so he be but cultivated.
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The beautiful is a phenomenon which is never apparent of itself, but is reflected in a thousand different works of the creator.
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Nature understands no jesting. She is always true, always serious, always severe. She is always right, and the errors are always those of man.
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If I say to the moment: 'Stay now! You are so beautiful'!
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