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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Age: 82 †
Born: 1749
Born: August 22
Died: 1832
Died: March 22
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A distracted existence leads us to no goal
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Is it life, I ask, is it even prudence, To bore thyself and bore the students?
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To live in a great idea means to treat the impossible as though it were possible. It is just the same with a strong character and when an idea and a character meet, things arise which fill the world with wonder for thousands of years.
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Dispel not, the happy delusions of children.
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The art of governing is a great metier, requiring the whole man, and it is therefore not well for a ruler to have too strong tendencies for other affairs.
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Unlike grown ups, children have little need to deceive themselves.
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In politics people throw themselves, as on a sickbed, from one side to the other in the belief they will lie more comfortably.
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That which is eternal in Woman lifts us above.
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What matters in art is not thinking but making.
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The experiences show us just as we are they make us see our own defects.
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A genuine work of art usually displeases at first sight, as it suggests a deficiency in the spectator.
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If you call a thing bad you do little, if you call a thing good you do much
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The arts are the salt of the earth as salt relates to food, the arts relate to technology.
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What is the universal? The single case. What is the particular? Millions of cases.
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The day is of infinite length for him who knows how to appreciate and use it.
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If you've never eaten while crying you don t know what life tastes like.
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He who does not think much of himself is much more esteemed than he imagines.
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The present is a powerful deity. [Ger., Die Gegenwart ist eine machtige Gottin.]
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For just when ideas fail, a word comes in to save the situation.
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The whole history of the Christian Church is a mixture of errors and violence.
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