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I have found among my papers a sheet . . . in which I call architecture frozen music.

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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Age: 82 †
Born: 1749
Born: August 22
Died: 1832
Died: March 22
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Talent is nurtured in solitude character is formed in the stormy billows of the world. [Ger., Es bildet ein talent sich in der Stille, Sich ein Charakter in dem Strom der Welt.]
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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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Even though the world as a whole progresses, youth must always start again from the beginning, and as individuals go through the epochs of the world's culture.
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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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The way you see people is the way you treat them, and the way you treat them is what they become.
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The works of Lavoisier and his associates operated upon many of us at that time like the Sun's rising after a night of moonshine: but Chemistry is now betrothed to the Mathematics, and is in consequence grown somewhat shy of her former admirers.
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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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Live dangerously and you live right.
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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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Great necessity elevates man, petty necessity casts him down
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A phenomenon like Mozart remains an inexplicable thing.
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We know accurately only when we know little, with knowledge doubt increases.
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All professional men are handicapped by not being allowed to ignore things which are useless.
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There are few who have at once thought and capacity for action. Thought expands, but lames action animates, but narrows.
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Happiness is a ball after which we run wherever it rolls, and we push it with our feet when it stops.
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If one doesn't know one's own country, one doesn't have standards for foreign countries.
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Dispel not, the happy delusions of children.
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Opponents fancy they refute us when they repeat their own opinion and pay no attention to ours.
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Be above it! Make the world serve your purpose, but do not serve it.
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