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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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Let us not dream that reason can ever be popular. Passions, emotions, may be made popular but reason remains ever the property of an elect few.
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To the world you might be one person, but to one person, you might be the world. Kindness is the golden chain by which our world is bound together.
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Paternity is based anyhow only upon conviction: I am convinced, therefore, I am the father.
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In the colored reflection we have Life.
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It is not doing the thing we like to do, but liking the thing we have to do, that makes life blessed.
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The artist has a twofold relation to nature he is at once her master and her slave.
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