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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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Wisdom is found only in truth.
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It is better to be doing the most insignificant thing than to reckon even a half-hour insignificant.
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It is not always needful for truth to take a definite shape it is enough if it hovers about us like a spirit and produces harmony if it is wafted through the air like the sound of a bell, grave and kindly.
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What matters in art is not thinking but making.
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Aptitudes are assumed, they should become accomplishments. That is the purpose of all education.
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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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To accept good advice is but to increase one's own ability.
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Man's restlessness makes him strive.
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Go to foreign countries and you will get to know the good things one possesses at home.
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What is not started today is never finished tomorrow.
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Writing history is a method of getting rid of the past.
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He who knows no foreign languages knows nothing of his own.
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What is not fully understood is not possessed.
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When an idea is wanting, a word can always be found to take its place.
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Our virtues and view spring from one root.
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If you wish to advance into the infinite, explore the finite in all directions.
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True works of art are a manifestation of the higher laws of nature.
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Man is made by his belief. As he believes, so he is.
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The history of mankind is his character.
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