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Architecture is frozen music. [Ger., Die Backunst ist eine erstarrte Musik.]

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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 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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A phenomenon like Mozart remains an inexplicable thing.
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Freedom consists not in refusing to recognize anything above us, but in respecting something which is above us for by respecting it, we raise ourselves to it, and, by our very acknowledgment, prove that we bear within ourselves what is higher, and are worthy to be on a level with it.
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It is not enough to take steps which may someday lead to a goal each step must be itself a goal and a step likewise.
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Do not hurry do not rest.
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Self knowledge is best learned not by contemplation, but by action.
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Nothing is good for a nation but that which arises from its own core and its own general wants, without apish imitation of another.
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When translating one must proceed up to the intranslatable only then one becomes aware of the foreign nation and the foreign tongue.
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Certain flaws are necessary for the whole. It would seem strange if old friends lacked certain quirks.
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Against criticism a man can neither protest nor defend himself he must act in spite of it, and then it will gradually yield to him.
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The moment one definitely commits oneself, then Providence moves, too. All sorts of things occur to help one that would never have otherwise occurred...unforeseen incidents and meetings and material assistance, which no man could have dreamed would have come his way.
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Sameness leaves us in peace but it is contradiction that makes us productive.
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Analysis and synthesis are both as necessary to the thinking spirit as inspiration and expiration to the organism.
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The greatest difficulties lie where we are not looking for them.
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Since Time is not a person we can overtake when he is gone, let us honor him with mirth and cheerfulness of heart while he is passing.
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The threshold is the place of expectation.
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God help us -- for art is long, and life so short.
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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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When you are in conflict with someone, there is one factor that can make the difference between damaging your relationship and deepening it. That factor is attitude. We don't get to know people when they come to us we must go to them to find out what they are like.
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Impotent hatred is the most horrible of all emotions one should hate nobody whom one cannot destroy.
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