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Everything great and intelligent is in the minority
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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And future deeds crowded round us as the countless stars in the night. [Ger., Und kunftige Thaten drangen wie die Sterne Rings um uns her unzahlig aus der Nacht.]
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If you inquire what people are like here, I must answer, The same as everywhere.
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The hardest thing to see is what is in front of your eyes.
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Man... knows only when he is satisfied and when he suffers, and only his sufferings and his satisfactions instruct him concerning himself, teach him what to seek and what to avoid. For the rest, man is a confused creature he knows not whence he comes or whither he goes, he knows little of the world, and above all, he knows little of himself.
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Great endowments often announce themselves in youth in the form of singularity and awkwardness.
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Alas, I have studied philosophy, the law as well as medicine, and to my sorrow, theology studied them well with ardent zeal, yet here I am, a wretched fool, no wiser than I was before.
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If you have science and art, You also have religion But if you don't have them, You better have religion.
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My inheritance how lordly wide and fair Time is my fair seed-field, to Time I'm heir.
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The flowers are full of honey, but only the bee finds out the sweetness.
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What life half gives a man, posterity gives entirely.
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