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Help me to discover Thy truth, O Lord, and preserve me from those who have already found it
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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[W]hat counts is that one perceives excellence and dares to give it expression, which sounds little but is in fact a great deal.
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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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Mannerism is always longing to have done, and has no true enjoyment in work. A genuine, really great talent, on the other hand, has its greatest happiness in execution.
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To live as one likes is plebian the noble man aspires to order and law.
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I examine my own being, and find there a world, but a world rather of imagination and dim desires, than of distinctness and living power. Then everything swims before my senses, and I smile and dream while pursuing my way through the world.
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Originality provokes originality.
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Manners form the great charm of women.
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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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The coward only threatens when he is safe.
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A genuine work of art usually displeases at first sight, as it suggests a deficiency in the spectator.
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They should be ashamed of themselves, all these sober people!
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I let everyone follow his own bent, that I may be free to follow mine.
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Let mental culture go on advancing, let the natural sciences progress in even greater extent and depth, and the human mind widen itself as much as it desires: beyond the elevation and moral culture of Christianity, as it shines forth in the Gospels, it will not go.
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It has been said that figures rule the world. Maybe. But I am sure that figures show us whether it is being ruled well or badly.
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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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True works of art contain their own theory and give us the measurement according to which we should judge them.
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By nature we have no defect that could not become a strength, no strength that could not become a defect.
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Try novelties for salesman's bait, For novelty wins everyone.
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What is not started today is never finished tomorrow.
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