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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Age: 82 †
Born: 1749
Born: August 22
Died: 1832
Died: March 22
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Alas, I have studied philosophy, the law as well as medicine, and to my sorrow, theology studied them well with ardent zeal, yet here I am, a wretched fool, no wiser than I was before.
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Why look for conspiracy when stupidity can explain so much
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Judge a man's character by what he finds ridiculous.
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We lay aside letters never to read them again, and at last we destroy them out discretion, and so disappears the most immediate breath of life, irrecoverably for ourselves and for others.
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The flowers of life are but visionary. How many pass away and leave no trace behind! How few yield any fruit,--and the fruit itself, how rarely does it ripen! And yet there are flowers enough and is it not strange, my friend, that we should suffer the little that does really ripen to rot, decay, and perish unenjoyed?
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What sort of faults may we retain, nay, even cherish in ourselves? Those faults which are rather pleasant than offensive to others.
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Most pioneers are at the mercy of doubt at the beginning, whether of their worth, of their theories, or of the whole enigmatic field in which they labour.
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Woe to falsehood! it affords no relief to the breast, like truth it gives us no comfort, pains him who forges it, and like an arrow directed by a god flies back and wounds the archer.
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They teach in academies far too many things, and far too much that is useless.
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The first and last thing required of genius is the love of truth. [Ger., Das erste und letzte, was vom Genie gefordert wird, ist Wahreits-Liebe.]
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It is natural to man to regard himself as the final cause of creation.
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Are we not also married to conscience which we would love to get rid of often enough since it is more bothersome than a man or a woman ever could become?
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Science arose from poetry... when times change the two can meet again on a higher level as friends.
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The most difficult thing is what is thought to be the simplest to really see the things which are before your eyes.
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Beauty is everywhere a welcome guest.
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Some of our weaknesses are born in us, others are the result of education it is a question which of the two gives us most trouble.
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Give me the benefit of your convictions, if you have any but keep your doubts to yourself, for I have enough of my own.
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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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Opponents fancy they refute us when they repeat their own opinion and pay no attention to ours.
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One spares old people just as one spares children.
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