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The century is advanced, but every individual begins afresh.
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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Why should we not recognize in the lightning, the thunder, and the storm wind, the approach of an overwhelming Power, and in the scent of flowers and the gently rustling zephyr the presence of a Being full of love?
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Those who hope for no other life are dead even for this.
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The man of understanding finds everything laughable.
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No matter what one says, you can recognize only those matters that are equal to you. Only rulers who possess extraordinary abilities will recognize and esteem properly extraordinary abilities in their subjects and servants.
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Be always resolute with the present hour. Every moment is of infinite value.
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The greatest joy of a thinking man is to have searched the explored and to quietly revere the unexplored.
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Man... knows only when he is satisfied and when he suffers, and only his sufferings and his satisfactions instruct him concerning himself, teach him what to seek and what to avoid. For the rest, man is a confused creature he knows not whence he comes or whither he goes, he knows little of the world, and above all, he knows little of himself.
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Beware of a man of one book.
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The art of living rightly is like all arts it must be learned and practiced with incessant care.
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Daring ideas are like chessmen moved forward they may be beaten, but they may start a winning game.
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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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Doesn't surprise me that Christ our Lord preferred to live with whores and sinners, seeing I go in for that myself.
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The arts are the salt of the earth as salt relates to food, the arts relate to technology.
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I had toward the poetic art a peculiar relation which was only practical after I had cherished in my mind for a long time a subject which possessed me, a model which inspired me, a predecessor who attracted me, until at length, after I had molded it
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The artist has a twofold relation to nature he is at once her master and her slave.
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The hardest thing to see is what is in front of your eyes.
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If you are to accomplish all that one demands of you, you must overestimate your own worth.
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Everyone only hears what he understands.
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Superstition is part of the poetry of life.
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