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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Age: 82 †
Born: 1749
Born: August 22
Died: 1832
Died: March 22
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Self knowledge is best learned not by contemplation, but by action.
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It is sometimes essential for a husband and a wife to quarrel - they get to know each other better.
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Against criticism a man can neither protest nor defend himself he must act in spite of it, and then it will gradually yield to him.
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The close and thoughtful observer more and more learns to recognize his limitations. He realizes that with the steady growth of knowledge more and more new problems keep on emerging.
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How happy he who can still hope to lift himself from this sea of error! What we know not, that we are anxious to possess, and cannot use what we know.
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There is no patriotic art.
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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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Talk well of the absent whenever you have the opportunity.
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Art is constitutive-the artist determines beauty. He does not take it over.
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Why should we not recognize in the lightning, the thunder, and the storm wind, the approach of an overwhelming Power, and in the scent of flowers and the gently rustling zephyr the presence of a Being full of love?
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Man usually believes, if only words he hears, That also with them goes material for thinking. [Ger., Gewohnlich glaubt der Mensch, wenn er nur Worte hort, Es musse sich dabei doch auch was denken.]
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Vanity is a desire of personal glory, the wish to be appreciated, honoured, and run after, not because of one's personal qualities, merits, and achievements, but because of one's individual existence. At best, therefore, it is a frivolous beauty whim it befits.
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Be always resolute with the present hour. Every moment is of infinite value.
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Care is taken that trees do not grow into the sky.
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If we meet someone who owes us a debt of gratitude, we remember the fact at once. How often we can meet someone to whom we owe a debt of gratitude without thinking about it at all!
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No one would talk much in society if they knew how often they misunderstood others.
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Don't say that you want to give, but go ahead and give! You'll never catch up with a mere hope.
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Nothing is worth more than this day. You cannot relive yesterday. Tomorrow is still beyond your reach.
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There is nothing more frightful than ignorance in action.
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The world only goes forward because of those who oppose it.
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