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Self-knowledge comes from knowing other men.
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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How can one learn to know oneself? Never by introspection, rather by action.
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The world is for thousands a freak show the images flicker past and vanish the impressions remain flat and unconnected in the soul. Thus they are easily led by the opinions of others, are content to let their impressions be shuffled and rearranged and evaluated differently.
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We who didn't inherit political power nor are made to acquire riches like nothing better than that which expands and solidifies the power of the spirit.
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Since I have heard often enough that everyone in the end has his own religion, nothing seemed more natural to me than to fashion my own.
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Passions are defects or virtues in the highest power.
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Were the eye not of the sun, How could we behold the light? If God's might and ours were not as one, How could His work enchant our sight?
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Paternity is based anyhow only upon conviction: I am convinced, therefore, I am the father.
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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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He who is firm and resolute in will molds the world to himself.
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In comradeship is danger countered best.
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Behavior is a mirror in which every one shows his image. [Ger., Das Betragen ist ein Spiegel in welchem jeder sein Bild zeigt.]
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Viewed from the summit of reason, all life looks like a malignant disease and the world like a madhouse.
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Doesn't surprise me that Christ our Lord preferred to live with whores and sinners, seeing I go in for that myself.
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Sowing is not as difficult as reaping.
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The best fortune that can fall to a man is that which corrects his defects and makes up for his failings.
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Great necessity elevates man, petty necessity casts him down
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Man believes himself always greater than he is, and is esteemed less than he is worth.
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Thou must (in commanding and winning, or serving and losing, suffering or triumphing) be either anvil or hammer.
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With the growth of knowledge our ideas must from time to time be organized afresh. The change takes place usually in accordance with new maxims as they arise, but it always remains provisional.
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To hard necessity ones will and fancy must conform.
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