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One glance, one word from you gives more pleasure than all the wisdom of this world.

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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So long as you live and work, you will be misunderstood to that you must resign yourself once and for all. Be silent!
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The shudder of awe is humanity's highest faculty, Even though this world is forever altering its values.
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If a man or woman is born ten years sooner or later, their whole aspect and performance shall be different.
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How can one learn to know oneself? Never by introspection, rather by action.
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In art, to express the infinite one should suggest infinitely more than is expressed.
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As all Nature's thousands changes But one changeless God proclaim So in Art's wide kingdom ranges One sole meaning still the same: This is Truth, eternal Reason, Which from Beauty takes its dress, And serene through time and season Stands aye in loveliness.
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Here too it’s masquerade, I find: As everywhere, the dance of mind. I grasped a lovely masked procession, And caught things from a horror show… I’d gladly settle for a false impression, If it would last a little longer, though.
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Someday perhaps the inner light will shine forth from us, and the we'll need no other light.
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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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As soon as any one belongs to a narrow creed in science, every unprejudiced and true perception is gone.
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As man is, so is his God. And thus is God oft strangely odd.
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Man can only endure a certain degree of unhappiness what is beyond that either annihilates him or passes by him and leaves him apathetic
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Individuality of expression is the beginning and end of all art.
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Were the eye not of the sun, How could we behold the light? If God's might and ours were not as one, How could His work enchant our sight?
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If God had wanted me otherwise, He would have created me otherwise.
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Mannerism is always longing to have done, and has no true enjoyment in work. A genuine, really great talent, on the other hand, has its greatest happiness in execution.
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The field of experience is the whole universe in all directions. Theory remains shut up within the limits of human faculties.
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It is not always needful for truth to take a definite shape it is enough if it hovers about us like a spirit and produces harmony if it is wafted through the air like the sound of a bell, grave and kindly.
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Whenever I hear people talking about liberal ideas, I am always astounded that men should love to fool themselves with empty sounds. An idea should never be liberal it must be vigorous, positive, and without loose ends so that it may fulfill its divine mission and be productive.
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