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He who does not know foreign languages does not know anything about his own.
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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Analysis and synthesis are both as necessary to the thinking spirit as inspiration and expiration to the organism.
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True happiness springs from moderation.
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Everyone holds his fortune in his own hands, like a sculptor the raw material he will fashion into a figure. But it's the same with that type of artistic activity as with all others: We are merely born with the capability to do it. The Skill to mold the material into what we want must be learned and attentively cultivated.
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The summit charms us, the steps to it do not with the heights before our eyes, we like to linger in the plain. It is only a part of art that can be taught but the artist needs the whole. He who is only half instructed speaks much and is always wrong who knows it wholly is content with acting and speaks seldom or late.
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Most pioneers are at the mercy of doubt at the beginning, whether of their worth, of their theories, or of the whole enigmatic field in which they labour.
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Who longs in solitude to live, Ah! soon his wish will gain: Men hope and love, men get and give, and leave him to his pain.
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Sometimes I don't understand how another can love her, is allowed to love her, since I love her so completely myself, so intensely, so fully, grasp nothing, know nothing, have nothing but her!
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What dazzles, for the moment spends its spirit Whats genuine, shall posterity inherit.
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He who is plenteously provided for from within needs but little from without.
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What I possess I would gladly retain. Change amuses the mind, yet scarcely profits.
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All intelligent thoughts have already been thought what is necessary is only to try to think them again.
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The one who acts is always without conscience nobody has a conscience but the contemplative person.
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The art of governing is a great metier, requiring the whole man, and it is therefore not well for a ruler to have too strong tendencies for other affairs.
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Without haste! without rest! Bind the motto to thy breast! Bear it with thee as a spell Storm or sunshine , guard it well.
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There are situations in which hope and fear run together, in which they mutually destroy one another and lose themselves in dull indifference.
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Tolerance should really be only a temporary attitude it must lead to recognition. To tolerate means to offend.
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Art is a mediator of the unspeakable.
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Names are but noise and smoke, Obscuring heavenly light.
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God made man simple, but how he changed and got complicated is hard to say.
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It is the color closest to light. In its utmost purity it always implies the nature of brightness and has a cheerful, serene, gently stimulating character. Hence, experience teaches us that yellow makes a thoroughly warm and comforting impression.
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