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Care is taken that trees do not grow into the sky.
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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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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Truth has to be repeated constantly, because Error also is being preached all the time, and not just by a few, but by the multitude. In the Press and Encyclopaedias, in Schools and Universities, everywhere Error holds sway, feeling happy and comfortable in the knowledge of having Majority on its side.
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True art can only spring from the intimate linking of the serious and the playful.
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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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Names are but noise and smoke, Obscuring heavenly light.
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There is nothing outside of us that is not at the same time in us, and as the external world has its colors the eye, too, has colors.
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Do thine own task, and be therewith content.
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Nature does not suffer her veil to be taken from her, and what she does not choose to reveal to the spirit, thou wilt not wrest from her by levers and screws.
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Whatever Nature undertakes, she can only accomplish it in a sequence. She never makes a leap.
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The few of understanding, vision rare, Who veiled not from the herd their hearts, but tried, Poor generous fools, to lay their feelings bare, Them have men always burnt and crucified.
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Truth is a torch, but a terrific one therefore we all try to reach it with closed eyes, lest we should be scorched.
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The shudder of awe is humanity's highest faculty, Even though this world is forever altering its values.
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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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The march of intellect, which licks all the world into shape, has even reached the devil.
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No one knows what he is doing so long as he is acting rightly but of what is wrong one is always conscious.
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To accept good advice is but to increase one's own ability.
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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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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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Upon the creatures we have made, we are, ourselves, at last, dependent.
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