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Architecture is frozen music. [Ger., Die Backunst ist eine erstarrte Musik.]
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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To me the external existence of my soul is proved from my idea of activity. If I work incessantly until my death, nature will give me another form of existence when the present can no longer sustain my spirit.
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There are two things parents should give their children roots and wings. Roots to give them bearing and a sense of belonging, but also wings to help free them from constraints and prejudices and give them other ways to travel (or rather, to fly).
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The passions are like those demons with which Afrasahiab sailed down the Orus. Our only safety consists in keeping them asleep. If they we are lost.
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The formation of one's character ought to be everyone's chief aim.
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That which is eternal in Woman lifts us above.
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The whole history of the Christian Church is a mixture of errors and violence.
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The best benefit we derive from history is the enthusiasm it excites.
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Stones are mute teachers they silence the observer, and the most valuable lesson we learn from them we cannot communicate.
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And I like those authors best whose scenes describe my own situation in life-- and the friends who are about me whose stories touch me with interest, from resembling my own homely existence.
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Alas, I have studied philosophy, the law as well as medicine, and to my sorrow, theology studied them well with ardent zeal, yet here I am, a wretched fool, no wiser than I was before.
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When we treat man as he is, we make him worse than he is when we treat him as if he already were what he potentially could be, we make him what he should be.
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It is a maxim of wise government to treat people not as they should be but as they actually are.
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The highest problem of any art is to cause by appearance the illusion of a higher reality.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
People are always talking about originality, but what do they mean? As soon as we are born, the world begins to work upon us, and this goes on to the end.
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Flowers are the beautiful hieroglyphics of nature with which she indicates how much she loves us.
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The real scholar learns how to evolve the unknown from the known, and draws near the master.
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It is equally a mistake to hold one's self too high, or to rate one's self too cheap.
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Toleration ought in reality to be merely a transitory mood. It must lead to recognition. To tolerate is to affront.
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You will find the most pronounced hatred of other nations on the lowest cultural levels. There is, though, a level where the hatred disappears completely and where one so to speak stands above the nations and where one experiences fortune or misfortune of a neighboring country as if they had happened to one's own.
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In art, the best is good enough.
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