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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Age: 82 †
Born: 1749
Born: August 22
Died: 1832
Died: March 22
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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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The world only goes forward because of those who oppose it.
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Blood is a very special juice.
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Those who hope for no other life are dead even for this.
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I let everyone follow his own bent, that I may be free to follow mine.
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Everything that we call Invention or Discovery in the higher sense of the word is the serious exercise and activity of an original feeling for truth, which, after a long course of silent cultivation, suddenly flashes out into fruitful knowledge.
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One always has time enough, if one will apply it well.
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Music is either sacred or secular. The sacred agrees with its dignity, and here has its greatest effect on life, an effect that remains the same through all ages and epochs. Secular music should be cheerful throughout.
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I could never have known so well how paltry men are, and how little they care for really high aims, if I had not tested them by my scientific researches. Thus I saw that most men only care for science so far as they get a living by it, and that they worship even error when it affords them a subsistence.
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Everything in the world may be endured, except only a succession of prosperous days. [Ger., Alles in der Welt lasst sich ertragen, Nur nicht eine Reihe von schonen Tagen.]
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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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Our hands we open of our own free will, and the good flies, which we can never recall.
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Whatever Nature undertakes, she can only accomplish it in a sequence. She never makes a leap.
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Great endowments often announce themselves in youth in the form of singularity and awkwardness.
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I have found among my papers a sheet . . . in which I call architecture frozen music.
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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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No one knows what he is doing so long as he is acting rightly but of what is wrong one is always conscious.
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This being busied with thoughts of immortality is for the noble classes and especially for women with nothing to do. A solid person, though, someone who already intends to be something worthy here, and who therefore has to strive daily, has to struggle and work, gives the world to come a rest.
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Napoleon for the sake of a good name broke in pieces half the world.
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Whatever you cannot understand, you cannot possess.
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