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If you wish a wise answer, you must put a rational question.
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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Sin writes histories, goodness is silent. [Ger., Das Uebel macht eine Geschichte und das Gute keine.]
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What is now the foliage moving? Air is still, and hush'd the breeze, Sultriness, this fullness loving, Through the thicket, from the trees. Now the eye at once gleams brightly, See! the infant band with mirth Moves and dances nimbly, lightly, As the morning gave it birth, Flutt'ring two and two o'er earth.
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To witness two lovers is a spectacle for the gods.
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So dear night the half of life is, And the fairest half indeed.
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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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Science has been seriously retarded by the study of what is not worth knowing and of what is not knowable.
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Does not man lack the force at the very point where he needs it most? And when he soars upward in joy, or sinks down in suffering, is not checked in both, is he not returned again to the dull, cold sphere of awareness, just when he was longing to lose himself in the fullness of the infinite.
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The beginning of faith is the beginning of fruitfulness but the beginning of unbelief, however glittering, is empty.
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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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Why go further and further, Look, happiness is right here. Learn how to grab hold of luck, For luck is always there.
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I've often heard it said a preacher might learn with a comedian for a teacher.
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Not art and science only, but patience will be required for the work.
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Woe to him who would ascribe something like reason to Chance, and make a religion of surrendering to it.
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One needs only to get old to become milder I don't see anyone make a mistake I hadn't also made.
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