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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Age: 82 †
Born: 1749
Born: August 22
Died: 1832
Died: March 22
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What is important in life is life, and not the result of life.
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Riches amassed in haste will diminish but those collected by hand and little by little will multiply.
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When scholars study a thing, they strive to kill it first, if it's alive then they have the parts and the'be lost the whole, for the link that's missing was the living soul.
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We know accurately only when we know little, with knowledge doubt increases.
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The highest problem of any art is to cause by appearance the illusion of a higher reality.
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For precisely when concepts fail one, Words are found at the right time.
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I can promise to be upright, but not to be without bias. [Ger., Aufrichtig zu sein kann ich versprechen unparteiisch zu sein aber nicht.]
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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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It matters little whether a man be mathematically or philologically or artistically cultivated, so he be but cultivated.
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We always hope, and in all things it is better to hope than to despair.
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It is commonly the personal character of a writer which gives him his public significance. It is not imparted by his genius. Napoleon said of Corneille, Were he living I would make him a king but he did not read him. He read Racine, yet he said nothing of the kind of Racine.
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It is opposition that makes us productive.
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Sin writes histories, goodness is silent. [Ger., Das Uebel macht eine Geschichte und das Gute keine.]
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True art can only spring from the intimate linking of the serious and the playful.
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Beware of a man of one book.
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The best benefit we derive from history is the enthusiasm it excites.
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Let no one be ashamed to say yes today if yesterday he said no. Or to say no today if yesterday he said yes. For that is life. Never to have changed-what a pitiable thing of which to boast!
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The close and thoughtful observer more and more learns to recognize his limitations. He realizes that with the steady growth of knowledge more and more new problems keep on emerging.
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It used to happen, and still happens, to me to take no pleasure in a work of art at the first sight of it, because it is too much for me but if I suspect any merit in it, I try to get at it and then I never fail to make the most gratifying discoveries--to find new qualities in the work itself and new faculties in myself.
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Ah! my poor brain is racked and crazed, My spirit and senses amazed!
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