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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Age: 82 †
Born: 1749
Born: August 22
Died: 1832
Died: March 22
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Painting predicates what man wants to see, and what man ought to see, not what he ordinarily sees.
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A word spoken is a terrible thing when it suddenly utters what the heart has long allowed.
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There is nothing more frightful than an active ignorance. [Ger., Es ist nichts schrecklicher als eine thatige Unwissenheit.]
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If you wish to advance into the infinite, explore the finite in all directions.
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Beauty is a manifestation of secret natural laws, which otherwise would have been hidden from us forever.
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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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The arts are the salt of the earth as salt relates to food, the arts relate to technology.
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Why look for conspiracy when stupidity can explain so much
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What life half gives a man, posterity gives entirely.
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Death is a commingling of eternity with time in the death of a good man, eternity is seen looking through time.
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Ah, how often I've cursed those foolish pages, That showed my youthful sufferings to everyone! If Werther had been my brother, and I'd killed him, His sad ghost could hardly have persecuted me more.
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We will burn that bridge when we come to it.
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Beautiful is greater than Good, for it includes the Good.
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In comradeship is danger countered best.
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Mysteries are not necessarily miracles.
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We can redeem anyone who strives unceasingly.
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Since I have heard often enough that everyone in the end has his own religion, nothing seemed more natural to me than to fashion my own.
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Wouldst thou ever roam abroad? See, what is good lies by thy side. Only learn to catch happiness, for happiness is ever by you.
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If in the infinite you want to stride, Just walk in the finite to every side.
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To know where a thing is we must have found it.
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