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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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Belief is not the beginning of knowledge - it is the end.
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Experiments are mediators between nature and idea.
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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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To live within limits. To want one thing. Or a few things very much and love them dearly. Cling to them, survey them from every angle. Become one with them - that is what makes the poet, the artist, the human being.
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There is nothing in the world more pitiable than an irresolute man, oscillating between two feelings, who would willingly unite the two and who does not perceive that nothing can unite them
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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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He is the happiest man who can see the connection between the end and the beginning of life.
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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 true German can't stand the French, Yet willingly he drinks their wines.
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New inventions can and will be made however, nothing new can be thought of that concerns moral man. Everything has already been thought and said which at best we can express in different forms and give new expressions to.
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One must not criticize that which is common since it remains always the same.
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Ah! my poor brain is racked and crazed, My spirit and senses amazed!
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Let everyone sweep in front of his own door, and the whole world will be clean.
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Culture which smooth the whole world licks, Also unto the devil sticks.
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Everything that frees our spirit without giving us control of ourselves is ruinous.
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Then to the depths! - I could as well say height: It's all the same.
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Properly speaking, such work is never finished one must declare it so when, according to time and circumstances, one has done one's best.
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Tis Lilith. Who? Adam's first wife is she. Beware the lure within her lovely tresses, The splendid sole adornment of her hair When she succeeds therewith a youth to snare, Not soon again she frees him from her jesses.
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Try novelties for salesman's bait, For novelty wins everyone.
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