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Experience is only half of experience.
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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One doesn't always lose when one has to do without.
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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 greatest piece of folly is that every man thinks himself compelled to hand down what people think they have known.
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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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Many hammer all over the wall and believe that with each blow they hit the nail on the head.
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What is not started today is never finished tomorrow.
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The more one knows, the more one comprehends, the more one realizes that everything turns in a circle.
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Superstition belongs to the essence of mankind and takes refuge, when one thinks one has suppressed it completely, in the strangest nooks and crannies once it is safely ensconced there, it suddenly reappears.
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If youth is a fault, it is one that one gets rid of soon enough.
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Nothing is more disgusting than the majority: because it consists of a few powerful predecessors, of rogues who adapt themselves, of weak who assimilate themselves, and the masses who imitate without knowing at all what they want.
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Individuality of expression is the beginning and end of all art.
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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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How happy he who can still hope to lift himself from this sea of error! What we know not, that we are anxious to possess, and cannot use what we know.
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To create something you must be something.
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Every man must form himself as a particular being, seeking, however, to attain that general idea of which all mankind are constituents.
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People are so constituted that everybody would rather undertake what they see others do, whether they have an aptitude for it or not.
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Oh God, how do the world and heavens confine themselves, when our hearts tremble in their own barriers!
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Men in a state of nature, uncivilized nations, children, have a great fondness for colors in their utmost brightness, and especially for yellow-red.
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How can we learn self-knowledge? Never by taking thought but rather by action. Try to do your duty and you'll soon discover what you're like.
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Love can do much, but duty more.
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