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All understanding begins in wonder!
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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Colors are light's suffering and joy
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The century is advanced, but every individual begins afresh.
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Look at a man the way he is and he only becomes worse, but look at him as if he were what he could be, then he becomes what he should be.
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I am fully convinced that the soul is indestructible, and its activity will continue through eternity.
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Great necessity elevates man, petty necessity casts him down
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The man of understanding finds everything laughable.
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True religion teaches us to reverence what is under us, to recognize humility and poverty, and, despite mockery and disgrace, wretchedness, suffering, and death, as things divine.
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Who longs in solitude to live, Ah! soon his wish will gain: Men hope and love, men get and give, and leave him to his pain.
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And those whom once my song had cheered and gladdened, If still they live, rove through the world now saddened.
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In art, the best is good enough.
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He is happiest, be he king or peasant, who finds peace in his home.
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Do people conform to the instructions of us old ones? Each thinks he must know best about himself, and thus many are lost entirely.
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Beauty and Genius must be kept afar if one would avoid becoming their slave.
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I wish the stage were as narrow as the wire of a tighrope dancer so that no incompetent would dare step upon it.
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To hard necessity ones will and fancy must conform.
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