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Oh how sweet it is to hear one's own convictions from another's lips.
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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All one needs to do is declare oneself free and one will immediately feel dependent. If you dare to declare yourself dependent, you feel independent.
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There are but two roads that lead to an important goal and to the doing of great things: strength and perseverance. Strength is the lot of but a few privileged men but austere perseverance, harsh and continuous, may be employed by the smallest of us and rarely fails of its purpose, for its silent power grows irresistibly greater with time.
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Truth is a torch, but a terrific one therefore we all try to reach it with closed eyes, lest we should be scorched.
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All theory, my friend, is grey, But green is life's glad golden tree.
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Every author in some way portrays himself in his works, even if it be against his will.
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Destiny grants us our wishes, but in its own way, in order to give us something beyond our wishes.
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He who cannot draw on three thousand years is living from hand to mouth.
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If you inquire what people are like here, I must answer, The same as everywhere.
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Experiments are mediators between nature and idea.
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What is hardest of all? That which seems most simple: to see with your eyes what is before your eyes.
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The Evil One has left, the evil ones remain.
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Belief is not the beginning of knowledge - it is the end.
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Let us live in as small a circle as we will, we are either debtors or creditors before we have had time to look around.
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Humans fear reason, but they ought to fear stupidity- for reason can be hard, but stupidity can be fatal.
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Thus one can observe that those who proclaim piety as their goal and purpose usually turn into hypocrites.
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The man who acts never has any conscience no one has any conscience but the man who thinks
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Nothing is more disgusting than the majority: because it consists of a few powerful predecessors, of rogues who adapt themselves, of weak who assimilate themselves, and the masses who imitate without knowing at all what they want.
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Man knows himself only insofar as he knows the world, becoming aware of it if only within himself, and of himself self only within it. Each new subject, well observed, opens up within us a new organ of thought.
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When you lose interest in anything, you also lose the memory for it.
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Zweck sein selbst ist jegliches Tier. Each animal is an end in itself.
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