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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Age: 82 †
Born: 1749
Born: August 22
Died: 1832
Died: March 22
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Since I have heard often enough that everyone in the end has his own religion, nothing seemed more natural to me than to fashion my own.
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I respect the man who knows distinctly what he wants.
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The greatest joy of a thinking man is to have searched the explored and to quietly revere the unexplored.
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There are few who have at once thought and capacity for action. Thought expands, but lames action animates, but narrows.
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Colors are the deeds/ and sufferings of light.
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Piety is not an end, but a means: a means of attaining the highest culture by the purest tranquility of soul. Hence it may be observed that those who set up piety as an end and object are mostly hypocrites.
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No matter what one says, you can recognize only those matters that are equal to you. Only rulers who possess extraordinary abilities will recognize and esteem properly extraordinary abilities in their subjects and servants.
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If youth is a fault, it is one that one gets rid of soon enough.
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Men show their character in nothing more clearly than what they think laughable.
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What do people mean when they talk about unhappiness? It is not so much unhappiness as impatience that from time to time possesses men, and then they choose to call themselves miserable.
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Passions are defects or virtues in the highest power.
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Man is not born to solve the problem of the universe, but to find out what he has to do and to restrain himself within the limits of his comprehension.
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A distracted existence leads us to no goal
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All that is noble is in itself of a quiet nature, and appears to sleep until it is aroused and summoned forth by contrast.
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It is related of an Englishman that he hanged himself to avoid the daily task of dressing and undressing.
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Never by reflection, but only by doing is self- knowledge possible to one.
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This being busied with thoughts of immortality is for the noble classes and especially for women with nothing to do. A solid person, though, someone who already intends to be something worthy here, and who therefore has to strive daily, has to struggle and work, gives the world to come a rest.
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The works of Lavoisier and his associates operated upon many of us at that time like the Sun's rising after a night of moonshine: but Chemistry is now betrothed to the Mathematics, and is in consequence grown somewhat shy of her former admirers.
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There is no patriotic art.
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On the pinnacle of success man does not stand firm long.
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