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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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The whole art of living consists in giving up existence in order to exist.
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Nothing is worth more than this day. You cannot relive yesterday. Tomorrow is still beyond your reach.
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As long as you are not aware of the continual law of Die and Be Again, you are merely a vague guest on a dark Earth.
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Stupidity is without anxiety.
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He who knows no foreign languages knows nothing of his own.
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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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It is the fortunate who should extol fortune. [Ger., Das Gluck erhebe billig der Begluckte.]
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When Nature begins to reveal her open secret to a man, he feels an irresistible longing for her worthiest interpreter, Art.
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There is nothing new on earth / For a person who lives long and experiences much. / In my years of youthful wandering / I have seen crystallized people.
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Science has been seriously retarded by the study of what is not worth knowing and of what is not knowable.
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The hardest thing to see is what is in front of your eyes.
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Wishes are premonitions of abilities.
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What is predestination? Answer: God is more powerful and wiser than we are, therefore he deals with us according to his pleasure.
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If God had wanted me otherwise, He would have created me otherwise.
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Humans fear reason, but they ought to fear stupidity- for reason can be hard, but stupidity can be fatal.
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So, lively brisk old fellow, don't let age get you down. White hairs or not, you can still be a lover.
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