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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 everyone sweep in front of his own door, and the whole world will be clean.
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Humans fear reason, but they ought to fear stupidity- for reason can be hard, but stupidity can be fatal.
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Manners form the great charm of women.
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The finished man, you know, is difficult to please a growing mind will ever show you gratitude. --Faust 1, lines 182-3
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You will find the most pronounced hatred of other nations on the lowest cultural levels. There is, though, a level where the hatred disappears completely and where one so to speak stands above the nations and where one experiences fortune or misfortune of a neighboring country as if they had happened to one's own.
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Do thine own task, and be therewith content.
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Yet he who grasps the moment's gift, He is the proper man.
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Lamps make oil-spots and candles need snuffing it is only the light of heaven that shines pure and leaves no stain.
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By seeking and blundering we learn.
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One should not search for anything behind the phenomena. They themselves are the message.
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No two men see the world exactly alike, and different temperaments will apply in different ways a principle that they both acknowledge.
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One alone does not help, but rather he who unites with many at the right moment.
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The light is there, and colors surround us. However, if there were no light nor colors in our own eye, we wouldn't perceive such things outside of us.
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I have found a paper of mine among some others in which I call architecture 'petrified music.' Really there is something in this the tone of mind produced by architecture approaches the effect of music.
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The march of intellect, which licks all the world into shape, has even reached the devil.
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On every mountain height is rest.
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Words express neither objects nor ourselves.
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The history of knowledge is a great fugue in which the voices of the nations one after the other emerge.
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Let no one be ashamed to say yes today if yesterday he said no. Or to say no today if yesterday he said yes. For that is life. Never to have changed-what a pitiable thing of which to boast!
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The older we get the more we must limit ourselves if we wish to be active.
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