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Microscopes and telescopes really confuse our minds.
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's plunge ourselves into the roar of time, the whirl of accident may pain and pleasure, success and failure, shift as they will -- it's only action that can make a man.
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Let us live, while we are alive!
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I am very anxious to please the public, particularly as it lives and lets live.
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What matters in art is not thinking but making.
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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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Voluntary dependence is the wonderful form of existence, and how could that be possible without love?
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Don't say that you want to give, but go ahead and give! You'll never catch up with a mere hope.
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To live within limits. To want one thing. Or a few things very much and love them dearly. Cling to them, survey them from every angle. Become one with them - that is what makes the poet, the artist, the human being.
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The eye doesn't see any shapes, it sees only what is differentiated through light and dark or through colors.
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Great thoughts and a pure heart, that is what we should ask from God.
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