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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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Time is a strange thing. It is a whimsical tyrant, which in every century has a different face for all that one says and does.
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Men in a state of nature, uncivilized nations, children, have a great fondness for colors in their utmost brightness, and especially for yellow-red.
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Man usually believes, if only words he hears, That also with them goes material for thinking. [Ger., Gewohnlich glaubt der Mensch, wenn er nur Worte hort, Es musse sich dabei doch auch was denken.]
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Hatred is a heavy burden. It sinks the heart deep in the breast, and lies like a tombstone on all joys.
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If you are to accomplish all that one demands of you, you must overestimate your own worth.
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The shudder of awe is humanity's highest faculty, Even though this world is forever altering its values.
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Wisdom is only found in truth. [Ger., Die Weisheit ist nur in der Wahrheit.]
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If you wish to advance into the infinite, explore the finite in all directions.
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A plant is like a self-willed man, out of whom we can obtain all which we desire, if we will only treat him his own way.
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Everything that we call Invention or Discovery in the higher sense of the word is the serious exercise and activity of an original feeling for truth, which, after a long course of silent cultivation, suddenly flashes out into fruitful knowledge.
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To measure up to all that is demanded of him, a man must overestimate his capacities
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Ye great teachers: listen to what you say!
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That which is eternal in Woman lifts us above.
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Where the light is brightest, the shadows are deepest.
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To live in a great idea means to treat the impossible as though it were possible. It is just the same with a strong character and when an idea and a character meet, things arise which fill the world with wonder for thousands of years.
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My poor head is in such a whirl, my mind is all in bits.
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The decline in literature indicates a decline in the nation. The two keep pace in their downward tendency.
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If you want to make life easy, make it hard.
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He who cannot love must learn to flatter.
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All perishable is but an allegory.
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