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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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What government is the best? That which teaches us to govern ourselves. [Ger., Welche Regierung die beste sei? Diejenige die uns lehrt uns selbst zu regieren.]
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I curse all negative purism that tells me not to use a word from another language that either expresses something that my own language cannot or does that in a more delicate manner.
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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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The intelligent man finds almost everything ridiculous, the sensible man hardly anything.
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A person hears only what they understand.
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When we treat man as he is, we make him worse than he is when we treat him as if he already were what he potentially could be, we make him what he should be.
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Thank God when He lays a burden on thee, and thank Him when He takes it off.
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Flowers are the beautiful hieroglyphics of nature with which she indicates how much she loves us.
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We usually lose today, because there has been a yesterday, and tomorrow is coming.
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None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free.
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When translating one must proceed up to the intranslatable only then one becomes aware of the foreign nation and the foreign tongue.
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Certain books seem to be written, not that we might learn from them, but in order that we might see how much the author knows.
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One cannot always be a hero, but one can always be a man.
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Is not the core of nature in the heart of man?
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Deeply earnest and thoughtful people stand on shaky footing with the public.
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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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For many people, one of the most frustrating aspects of life is not being able to understand other people's behavior.
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The most foolish of all errors is for clever young men to believe that they forfeit their originality in recognizing a truth which has already been recognized by others.
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