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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Age: 82 †
Born: 1749
Born: August 22
Died: 1832
Died: March 22
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Frankfurt/Main
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Life is the childhood of our immortality.
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There is nothing more frightful than an active ignorance. [Ger., Es ist nichts schrecklicher als eine thatige Unwissenheit.]
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A human being needs only a small plot of ground on which to be happy, and even less to lie beneath.
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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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Passions are vices or virtues to their highest powers.
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If you are to accomplish all that one demands of you, you must overestimate your own worth.
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Thus one can observe that those who proclaim piety as their goal and purpose usually turn into hypocrites.
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Men show their character in nothing more clearly than what they think laughable.
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Beauty can never really understand itself.
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If you have science and art, You also have religion But if you don't have them, You better have religion.
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Normally, the sciences distance themselves from life and the return to it via a detour.
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Great thoughts and a pure heart, that is what we should ask from God.
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Since you know me and my destiny only too well, you probably also know what attracts me to all unfortunate people.
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Man's restlessness makes him strive.
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The highest problem of any art is to cause by appearance the illusion of a higher reality.
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At the end of life thoughts hitherto impossible come to the collected mind, like good spirits which let themselves down from the shining heights of the past.
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As all Nature's thousands changes But one changeless God proclaim So in Art's wide kingdom ranges One sole meaning still the same: This is Truth, eternal Reason, Which from Beauty takes its dress, And serene through time and season Stands aye in loveliness.
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One spares old people just as one spares children.
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Of the book of books most wondrous is the tender book of love.
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The most damaging prejudice consists of banning any kind of investigation of nature.
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