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The beautiful is a phenomenon which is never apparent of itself, but is reflected in a thousand different works of the creator.

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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Frankfurt/Main
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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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Make the most of time, it flies away so fast yet method will teach you to win time.
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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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If in the infinite you want to stride, Just walk in the finite to every side.
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To live within limits. To want one thing. Or a few things very much and love them dearly. Cling to them, survey them from every angle. Become one with them - that is what makes the poet, the artist, the human being.
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I respect the man who knows distinctly what he wants.
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If God had wanted me otherwise, He would have created me otherwise.
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Were not the eye made to receive the rays of the sun, it could not behold the sun if the peculiar power of God lay not in us, how could the godlike charm us?
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In the colored reflection we have Life.
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The world is so full of simpletons and madmen, that one need not seek them in a madhouse.
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A man may twist as he pleases, and do what he pleases, but he inevitably comes back to the track to which nature has destined him.
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Nothing will change the fact that I cannot produce the least thing without absolute solitude.
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To appear at church every Sunday to look down upon, and let himself be looked at for an hour by the congregation, is the best means of becoming popular which can be recommended to a young sovereign.
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Nature is the living, visible garment of God.
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Wisdom is found only in truth.
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Whatever Nature undertakes, she can only accomplish it in a sequence. She never makes a leap.
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There is nothing more fearful than imagination without taste. [Ger., Es ist nichts furchterlicher als Einbildungskraft ohne Geschmack.]
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In comradeship is danger countered best.
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