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Names are but noise and smoke, Obscuring heavenly light.
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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Frankfurt/Main
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The world of reason is to be regarded as a great and immortal being, who ceaselessly works out what is necessary, and so makes himself lord also over what is accidental.
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Lamps make oil-spots and candles need snuffing it is only the light of heaven that shines pure and leaves no stain.
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The artist who is not also a craftsman is no good but, alas, most of our artists are nothing else.
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Several classical sayings that one likes to repeat had quite a different meaning from the ones later times attributed to them.
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two souls, alas, are housed within my breast, and each will wrestle for the mastery there.
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Let's plunge ourselves into the roar of time, the whirl of accident may pain and pleasure, success and failure, shift as they will -- it's only action that can make a man.
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And I have again observed, my dear friend, in this trifling affair, that misunderstandings and neglect occasion more mischief in the world than even malice and wickedness. At all events, the two latter are of less frequent occurrence.
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Only the heart without a stain knows perfect ease. [Ger., Ganz unbefleckt geniesst sich nur das Herz.]
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Give me the benefit of your convictions, if you have any but keep your doubts to yourself, for I have enough of my own.
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The public wishes itself to be managed like a woman one must say nothing to it except what it likes to hear.
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The flowers are full of honey, but only the bee finds out the sweetness.
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To blow is not to play on the flute you must move the fingers. [Ger., Blasen ist nicht floten, ihr musst die Finger bewegen.]
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Thank God when He lays a burden on thee, and thank Him when He takes it off.
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The flowers of life are but illusions. How many fade away and leave no trace.
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It used to happen, and still happens, to me to take no pleasure in a work of art at the first sight of it, because it is too much for me but if I suspect any merit in it, I try to get at it and then I never fail to make the most gratifying discoveries--to find new qualities in the work itself and new faculties in myself.
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Every person above the ordinary has a certain mission that they are called to fulfill.
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Hatred is something peculiar. You will always find it strongest and most violent where there is the lowest degree of culture.
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It is easier to perceive error than to find truth, for the former lies on the surface and is easily seen, while the latter lies in the depth, where few are willing to search for it.
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Character - in things great and small - is indicated when a man (or person) pursues with sustained follow-through what he feels himself capable of doing.
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Alas! how much there is in education, and in our social institutions, to prepare us and our children for insanity.
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