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We don't get to know anything but what we love.
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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The march of intellect, which licks all the world into shape, has even reached the devil.
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The senses do not deceive us, but the judgment does.
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A person is never happy till their vague strivings has itself marked out its proper limitations.
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To live within limits. To want one thing. Or a few things very much and love them dearly. Cling to them, survey them from every angle. Become one with them - that is what makes the poet, the artist, the human being.
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The whole history of the Christian Church is a mixture of errors and violence.
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We blame equally him who is too proud to put a proper value on his own merit and him who prizes too highly his spurious worth.
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