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A great scholar is seldom a great philosopher.
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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Does not man lack the force at the very point where he needs it most? And when he soars upward in joy, or sinks down in suffering, is not checked in both, is he not returned again to the dull, cold sphere of awareness, just when he was longing to lose himself in the fullness of the infinite.
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So long as you live and work, you will be misunderstood to that you must resign yourself once and for all. Be silent!
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Time is a strange thing. It is a whimsical tyrant, which in every century has a different face for all that one says and does.
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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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