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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Age: 82 †
Born: 1749
Born: August 22
Died: 1832
Died: March 22
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Science arose from poetry... when times change the two can meet again on a higher level as friends.
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Excellence is rarely found, more rarely valued.
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To like things like, whatever one may ail There is certain help.
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It used to happen, and still happens, to me to take no pleasure in a work of art at the first sight of it, because it is too much for me but if I suspect any merit in it, I try to get at it and then I never fail to make the most gratifying discoveries--to find new qualities in the work itself and new faculties in myself.
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Let no one be ashamed to say yes today if yesterday he said no. Or to say no today if yesterday he said yes. For that is life. Never to have changed-what a pitiable thing of which to boast!
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Gray is the color of all theory
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Unrest and uncertainty are our lot.
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It is better for you to suffer an injustice than for the world to be without law. Therefore, let everyone submit to the law.
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The further one advances in experience, the closer one comes to the unfathomable the more one learns to utilize experience, the more one recognizes that the unfathomable is of no practical value.
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What one has wished for in youth, in old age one has in abundance.
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One doesn't always lose when one has to do without.
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The greater part of all the mischief in the world arises from the fact that men do not sufficiently understand their own aims.
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Beware of dissipating your powers strive constantly to concentrate them.
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The people rate strength before everything.
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Whenever I hear people talking about liberal ideas, I am always astounded that men should love to fool themselves with empty sounds. An idea should never be liberal it must be vigorous, positive, and without loose ends so that it may fulfill its divine mission and be productive.
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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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Hatred is something peculiar. You will always find it strongest and most violent where there is the lowest degree of culture.
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What dazzles, for the moment spends its spirit Whats genuine, shall posterity inherit.
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All that is transitory is but a metaphor.
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I am very anxious to please the public, particularly as it lives and lets live.
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