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Experiments are mediators between nature and idea.
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 world is for thousands a freak show the images flicker past and vanish the impressions remain flat and unconnected in the soul. Thus they are easily led by the opinions of others, are content to let their impressions be shuffled and rearranged and evaluated differently.
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He only fears men who does not know them, and he who avoids them will soon misjudge them.
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National literature does not mean much these days now is the age of world literature, and every one must contribute to hasten thearrival of that age.
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Normally, people believe that, if they hear just words, that these words must lead to some thought.
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To measure up to all that is demanded of him, a man must overestimate his capacities
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If you lay duties upon people and give them no rights, you must pay them well.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
The suffering may be moral or physical and in my opinion it is just as absurd to call a man a coward who destroys himself, as to call a man a coward who dies of a malignant fever.
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How can we learn self-knowledge? Never by taking thought but rather by action. Try to do your duty and you'll soon discover what you're like.
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Piety, like nobility, has its aristocracy.
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Few men have imagination enough for reality.
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Error is to truth as sleep is to waking. I have observed that one turns, as if refreshed, from error back to truth.
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Misunderstandings and neglect occasion more mischief in the world than malice and wickedness.
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A wife is a gift bestowed upon a man to reconcile him to the loss of paradise.
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Thank God when he oppresses you, and again when he releases you.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Everywhere, we learn only from those whom we love.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Who enslaves another's manhood with weak human power alone, Lays a heavier yoke of bondage thoughtlessly upon his own.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
We know accurately only when we know little, with knowledge doubt increases.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Unrest and uncertainty are our lot.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
They should be ashamed of themselves, all these sober people!
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Our wishes are presentiments of the abilities that lie in us, harbingers of what we will be able to accomplish.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
