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Hypotheses are only the pieces of scaffolding which are erected round a building during the course of construction, and which are taken away as soon as the edifice is completed.
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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The ideal of beauty is simplicity and tranquility.
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Impotent hatred is the most horrible of all emotions one should hate nobody whom one cannot destroy.
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The highest cannot be spoken it can only be acted.
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One must be something, in order to do something.
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