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Most man only care for science so far as they get a living by it, and that they worship even error when it affords them a subsistence.
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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Dispel not, the happy delusions of children.
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The deepest, the only theme of human history, compared to which all others are of subordinate importance, is the conflict of skepticism with faith.
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It is equally a mistake to hold one's self too high, or to rate one's self too cheap.
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Yet here I stand poor fool what more, not one wit wiser than before.
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Our senses don't deceive us: our judgment does
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We must always change, renew, rejuvenate ourselves otherwise, we harden.
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Man knows himself only insofar as he knows the world, becoming aware of it if only within himself, and of himself self only within it. Each new subject, well observed, opens up within us a new organ of thought.
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