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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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Frankfurt/Main
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The world remains ever the same.
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It is opposition that makes us productive.
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A person is never happy till their vague strivings has itself marked out its proper limitations.
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Why look for conspiracy when stupidity can explain so much
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The modern age has a false sense of superiority, because of the great mass of data at its disposal. But the valid criterion of distinction is rather the extent to which man knows how to form and master the material at his command.
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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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Beware of wishing for anything in youth, because you will get it in middle age.
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Microscopes and telescopes really confuse our minds.
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The realization of the self is only possible if one is productive, if one can give birth to one's own potentialities.
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Beautiful is greater than Good, for it includes the Good.
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We usually lose today, because there has been a yesterday, and tomorrow is coming.
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We gladly put antiquity above our age but not posterity. Only a father doesn't begrudge his son's talent.
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Ah! my poor brain is racked and crazed, My spirit and senses amazed!
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Originality provokes originality.
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Nature is the living, visible garment of God.
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