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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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In happy ignorance, I sighed for a world I did not know, where I hoped to find every pleasure and enjoyment which my heart could desire and now, on my return from that wide world... how many disappointed hopes and unsuccessful plans have I brought back!
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Everywhere, we learn only from those whom we love.
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The flowers of life are but illusions. How many fade away and leave no trace.
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Mannerism is always longing to have done, and has no true enjoyment in work. A genuine, really great talent, on the other hand, has its greatest happiness in execution.
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I wait for the morning of my tears
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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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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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My days are as happy as those reserved by God for his elect and whatever be my fate hereafter, I can never say that I have not tasted joy— the purest joy of life.
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What dazzles, for the moment spends its spirit Whats genuine, shall posterity inherit.
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Ah! my poor brain is racked and crazed, My spirit and senses amazed!
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What is the universal? The single case. What is the particular? Millions of cases.
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In society every man is taken for what he gives himself out to be but he must give himself out to be something. Better to be slightly disagreeable than altogether insignificant.
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No man learns to know his inmost nature by introspection, for he rates himself sometimes too low, and often too high, by his own measurement. Man knows himself only by comparing himself with other men it is life that touches his genuine worth.
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Let us live in as small a circle as we will, we are either debtors or creditors before we have had time to look around.
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No two men see the world exactly alike, and different temperaments will apply in different ways a principle that they both acknowledge.
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Nothing is more odious than the majority, for it consists of a few powerful leaders, a certain number of accommodating scoundrels and submissive weaklings, and a mass of men who trot after them without thinking, or knowing their own minds.
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One should not search for anything behind the phenomena. They themselves are the message.
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Colors are light's suffering and joy
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The modern age has a false sense of superiority, because of the great mass of data at its disposal. But the valid criterion of distinction is rather the extent to which man knows how to form and master the material at his command.
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Talents are nurtured best in solitude, But character on life's tempestuous seas!
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