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In all times it is only individuals that have advanced science, not the age.
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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They teach in academies far too many things, and far too much that is useless.
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Alas, I have studied philosophy, the law as well as medicine, and to my sorrow, theology studied them well with ardent zeal, yet here I am, a wretched fool, no wiser than I was before.
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Over all the mountain tops is peace. In all treetops you perceive scarcely a breath. The little birds in the forest are silent. Wait then soon, you too, will have peace.
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In politics as on a sickbed men toss from side to side in hope of lying more comfortably.
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Self-love exaggerates our faults as well as our virtues.
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What is my life if I am no longer useful to others.
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What is fruitful alone is true.
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None are so hopelessly enslaved, as those who falsely believe they are free. The truth has been kept from the depth of their minds by masters who rule them with lies. They feed them on falsehoods till wrong looks like right in their eyes.
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A mind, once formed, is never suited after, One yet in growth will ever grateful be. [Ger., Wer fertig ist, dem ist nichts recht zu machen, Ein Werdender wird immer dankbar sein.]
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The spectacle of Nature is always new, for she is always renewing the spectators. Life is her most exquisite invention and death is her expert contrivance to get plenty of life.
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There is nothing more frightful than ignorance in action.
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Ingratitude is always a kind of weakness. I have never known men of ability to be ungrateful.
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A great revolution is never the fault of the people, but of the government.
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While man's desires and aspirations stir he cannot choose but err.
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And those whom once my song had cheered and gladdened, If still they live, rove through the world now saddened.
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Nothing is more terrible than to see ignorance in action.
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I look upon all four Gospels as thoroughly genuine, for there shines forth from them the reflected splendor of a sublimity proceeding from Jesus Christ.
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There is no patriotic art and no patriotic science.
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A person hears only what they understand.
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Ohne Hast, aber ohne Rast. - Without haste, but without rest.
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