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Boldness has power, magic and genius in it.
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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It is a great error to take oneself for more than one is, or for less than one is worth.
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People are always talking about originality, but what do they mean? As soon as we are born, the world begins to work upon us, and this goes on to the end.
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It is a very hard and troublesome thing to dispose of whole, half, and quarter-mistakes to sift them and assign the portion of truth to its proper place.
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The person who in shaky times also wavers only increases the evil, but the person of firm decision fashions the universe.
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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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Of the truly creative no one is ever master it must be left to go its own way.
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Analysis and synthesis are both as necessary to the thinking spirit as inspiration and expiration to the organism.
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The march of intellect, which licks all the world into shape, has even reached the devil.
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Thank God when he oppresses you, and again when he releases you.
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Every bird has its decoy, and every man is led and misled in his own peculiar way.
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Here too it’s masquerade, I find: As everywhere, the dance of mind. I grasped a lovely masked procession, And caught things from a horror show… I’d gladly settle for a false impression, If it would last a little longer, though.
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The man of understanding finds everything laughable.
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The greatest difficulties lie where we are not looking for them.
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Beauty and Genius must be kept afar if one would avoid becoming their slave.
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Duty is the demand of the hour.
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Wood burns because it has the proper stuff in it and a man becomes famous because he has the proper stuff in him.
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We are accustomed to see men deride what they do not understand, and snarl at the good and beautiful because it lies beyond their sympathies
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
If you don't know foreign languages, you don't know anything about your own.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
There is no trifling with nature it is always true, grave, and severe it is always in the light, and the faults and errors fall to our share. It defies incompetency, but reveals its secrets to the competent, the truthful, and the pure.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
If you start to think of your physical and moral condition, you usually find that you are sick.
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