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Habit is the most imperious of all masters.
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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It is equally a mistake to hold one's self too high, or to rate one's self too cheap.
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It is not given to us to grasp the truth, which is identical with the divine, directly. We perceive it only in reflection, in example and symbol, in singular and related appearances. It meets us as a kind of life which is incomprehensible to us, and yet we cannot free ourselves from the desire to comprehend it.
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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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Many young painters would never have taken their pencils in hand if they could have felt, known, and understood, early enough, what really produced a master like Raphael.
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Culture which smooth the whole world licks, Also unto the devil sticks.
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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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Perfection is the measure of heaven, and the wish to be perfect the measure of man.
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The artist may be well advised to keep his work to himself till it is completed, because no one can readily help him or advise him with it... but the scientist is wiser not to withhold a single finding or a single conjecture from publicity.
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I've often heard it said a preacher might learn with a comedian for a teacher.
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Whoever strikes at marriage either by word or act undermines the foundation of all moral society.
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As our inclinations, so our opinions.
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Doesn't surprise me that Christ our Lord preferred to live with whores and sinners, seeing I go in for that myself.
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Seldom in the business and transactions of ordinary life, do we find the sympathy we want.
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If God had wanted me otherwise, He would have created me otherwise.
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Beauty can never really understand itself.
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Truth is a torch, but a huge one, and so it is only with blinking eyes what we all of us try to get past it, in actual terror of being burnt.
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Man knows himself only insofar as he knows the world, becoming aware of it if only within himself, and of himself self only within it. Each new subject, well observed, opens up within us a new organ of thought.
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