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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Age: 82 †
Born: 1749
Born: August 22
Died: 1832
Died: March 22
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Frankfurt/Main
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If you've never eaten while crying you don t know what life tastes like.
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Of all peoples the Greeks have dreamt the dream of life best.
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Is not the core of nature in the heart of man?
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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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From desire I plunge to its fulfilment, where I long once more for desire.
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With knowledge comes more doubt.
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Energy will do anything that can be done in the world and no talents, no circumstances, no opportunities will make a two-legged animal a man without it.
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A man is really alive only when he delights in the good-will of others.
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When I make a mistake everyone can see it, but not when I lie.
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Then to the depths! - I could as well say height: It's all the same.
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Nature does not suffer her veil to be taken from her, and what she does not choose to reveal to the spirit, thou wilt not wrest from her by levers and screws.
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Error is to truth as sleep is to waking. I have observed that one turns, as if refreshed, from error back to truth.
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He is happiest, be he king or peasant, who finds peace in his home.
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Life is not anything, but an opportunity for something.
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Architecture is frozen music. [Ger., Die Backunst ist eine erstarrte Musik.]
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The bad thing is that thinking about thought doesn't help at all one has to have it from nature so that the good ideas appear before us like free children of God calling to us: Here we are.
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Every bird has its decoy, and every man is led and misled in his own peculiar way.
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Nature is the living, visible garment of God.
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As soon as any one belongs to a narrow creed in science, every unprejudiced and true perception is gone.
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Let no one be like another, yet everyone like the highest. How is this done? Be each one perfect in himself.
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