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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 cannot develop taste from what is of average quality but only from the very best.
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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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Normally, people believe that, if they hear just words, that these words must lead to some thought.
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As long as you don't practice it, this dying and becoming, You are only a dreary guest on this dark earth.
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The ideal of beauty is simplicity and tranquility.
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What sort of faults may we retain, nay, even cherish in ourselves? Those faults which are rather pleasant than offensive to others.
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As soon as any one belongs to a narrow creed in science, every unprejudiced and true perception is gone.
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Let us not dream that reason can ever be popular. Passions, emotions, may be made popular but reason remains ever the property of an elect few.
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In society every man is taken for what he gives himself out to be but he must give himself out to be something. Better to be slightly disagreeable than altogether insignificant.
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The eternal feminine doth draw us upward. [Ger., Das Ewig-Weibliche zieht uns hinan.]
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And those whom once my song had cheered and gladdened, If still they live, rove through the world now saddened.
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Error is to truth as sleep is to waking. I have observed that one turns, as if refreshed, from error back to truth.
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Self knowledge is best learned not by contemplation, but by action.
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The clever reader who is capable or reading between these lines what does not stand written in them but is nevertheless implied will be able to form some conception.
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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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Nothing is more terrible than to see ignorance in action.
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Experiments are mediators between nature and idea.
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The world is full of contradiction.
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Do not hurry do not rest.
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It is the color closest to light. In its utmost purity it always implies the nature of brightness and has a cheerful, serene, gently stimulating character. Hence, experience teaches us that yellow makes a thoroughly warm and comforting impression.
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