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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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Belief is not the beginning of knowledge - it is the end.
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Treat a person as they are, they will remain so. Treat a person the way that person can be and is capable of being and that person will become as he or she can be and should be.
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As a man is, so is his God therefore God was so often an object of mockery. [Ger., Wie einer ist, so ist sein Gott, Darum ward Gott so oft zu Spott.]
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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.
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First and last, what is demanded of genius is love of truth.
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Who can think wise or stupid things at all that were not thought already in the past.
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I respect the man who knows distinctly what he wants.
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If a man or woman is born ten years sooner or later, their whole aspect and performance shall be different.
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One alone does not help, but rather he who unites with many at the right moment.
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Over the trackless past, somewhere, Lie the lost days of our tropic youth, Only regained by faith and prayer, Only recalled by prayer and plaint, Each lost day has its patron saint!
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There is nothing more frightful than for a teacher to know only what his scholars are intended to know.
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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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Fret not over the irretrievable, but ever act as if thy life were just begun.
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