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Life is not anything, but an opportunity for something.
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 whole history of the Christian Church is a mixture of errors and violence.
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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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Culture which smooth the whole world licks, Also unto the devil sticks.
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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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How happy he who can still hope to lift himself from this sea of error! What we know not, that we are anxious to possess, and cannot use what we know.
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I am certain that I have been here as I am now a thousand times before, and I hope to return a thousand times... Man is a dialogue between nature and God. On other planets this dialogue will doubtless be of a higher and profounder character. What is lacking is Self-Knowledge. After that the rest will follow.
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Tolerance should, strictly speaking, be only a passing mood it ought to lead to acknowledgment and appreciation. To tolerate a person is to affront him.
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Words are good, but there is something better. The best cannot be explained by words. The spirit in which we act is the chief matter. Action can only be only understood and represented by the spirit.
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Wind is the loving Wooer of waters Wind blends together Billows all-foaming. Spirit of man, Thou art like unto water! Fortune of man, Thou art like unto wind!
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Why go further and further, Look, happiness is right here. Learn how to grab hold of luck, For luck is always there.
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They should be ashamed of themselves, all these sober people!
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Our modern wars make many unhappy while they last and none happy when they are over.
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There is nothing outside of us that is not at the same time in us, and as the external world has its colors the eye, too, has colors.
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There are but few who have ideas and are, at the same time, capable of action. Ideas enlarge but stymie, action enlivens but confines.
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One is never deceived one deceives oneself.
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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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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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The miller imagines that the corn grows only to make his mill turn.
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If we are out of synch with ourselves, everything is out of synch for us.
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Sceptics are yet the most credulous.
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