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Behavior is a mirror in which every one shows his image. [Ger., Das Betragen ist ein Spiegel in welchem jeder sein Bild zeigt.]

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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Stupidity is without anxiety.
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Our virtues and view spring from one root.
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That is the way of youth and life in general: that we do not understand the strategy until after the campaign is over.
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If you wish to advance into the infinite, explore the finite in all directions.
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I reverence the individual who understands distinctly what he wishes who unweariedly advances, who knows the means conducive to his object, and can seize and use them.
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When you lose interest in anything, you also lose the memory for it.
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The way you see people is the way you treat them, and the way you treat them is what they become.
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Some of our weaknesses are born in us, others are the result of education it is a question which of the two gives us most trouble.
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Let mental culture go on advancing, let the natural sciences progress in even greater extent and depth, and the human mind widen itself as much as it desires: beyond the elevation and moral culture of Christianity, as it shines forth in the Gospels, it will not go.
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Microscopes and telescopes really confuse our minds.
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All truly wise thoughts have been thought already thousands of times but to make them truly ours, we must think them over again honestly, until they take root in our personal experience.
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Wisdom is found only in truth.
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Does not man lack the force at the very point where he needs it most? And when he soars upward in joy, or sinks down in suffering, is not checked in both, is he not returned again to the dull, cold sphere of awareness, just when he was longing to lose himself in the fullness of the infinite.
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We can redeem anyone who strives unceasingly.
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As soon as any one belongs to a narrow creed in science, every unprejudiced and true perception is gone.
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What is not started today is never finished tomorrow.
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Someday perhaps the inner light will shine forth from us, and the we'll need no other light.
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What a day it is when we must envy the men in their graves.
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I curse all negative purism that tells me not to use a word from another language that either expresses something that my own language cannot or does that in a more delicate manner.
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