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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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Truth has to be repeated constantly, because Error also is being preached all the time, and not just by a few, but by the multitude. In the Press and Encyclopaedias, in Schools and Universities, everywhere Error holds sway, feeling happy and comfortable in the knowledge of having Majority on its side.
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God help us -- for art is long, and life so short.
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Sowing is not as difficult as reaping.
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Beware of a man of one book.
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There are people who make no mistakes because they never wish to do anything worth doing.
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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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It is one of Heaven's best gifts to hold such a dear creature in one's arms.
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Destiny grants us our wishes, but in its own way, in order to give us something beyond our wishes.
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There is nothing new on earth / For a person who lives long and experiences much. / In my years of youthful wandering / I have seen crystallized people.
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The aim of living is life itself.
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Every spoken word arouses our self-will.
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We are the slaves of objects around us, and appear little or important according as these contract or give us room to expand.
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When two people are really happy about one another one can generally assume they are mistaken.
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Let's plunge ourselves into the roar of time, the whirl of accident may pain and pleasure, success and failure, shift as they will -- it's only action that can make a man.
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True religion teaches us to reverence what is under us, to recognize humility and poverty, and, despite mockery and disgrace, wretchedness, suffering, and death, as things divine.
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A genuine work of art usually displeases at first sight, as it suggests a deficiency in the spectator.
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Thus I reel from desire to fulfillment and in fulfillment languish for desire.
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By nature we have no defect that could not become a strength, no strength that could not become a defect.
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There is nothing more frightful than for a teacher to know only what his scholars are intended to know.
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Higher aims are in themselves more valuable, even if unfulfilled, than lower ones quite attained.
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