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Passions are defects or virtues in the highest power.
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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The senses do not deceive us, but the judgment does.
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Make the most of time, it flies away so fast yet method will teach you to win time.
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Were not the eye made to receive the rays of the sun, it could not behold the sun if the peculiar power of God lay not in us, how could the godlike charm us?
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Give shape, artist! don't talk! Your poem be but a breath.
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God help us -- for art is long, and life so short.
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As long as you don't practice it, this dying and becoming, You are only a dreary guest on this dark earth.
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It is as certain as it is strange that truth and error come from one and the same source. Thus it is that we are often not at liberty to do violence to error, because at the same time we do violence to truth.
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Whenever I hear people talking about liberal ideas, I am always astounded that men should love to fool themselves with empty sounds. An idea should never be liberal it must be vigorous, positive, and without loose ends so that it may fulfill its divine mission and be productive.
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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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Wind is the loving Wooer of waters Wind blends together Billows all-foaming. Spirit of man, Thou art like unto water! Fortune of man, Thou art like unto wind!
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All intelligent thoughts have already been thought what is necessary is only to try to think them again.
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Higher aims are in themselves more valuable, even if unfulfilled, than lower ones quite attained.
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It is a great error to take oneself for more than one is, or for less than one is worth.
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A man may twist as he pleases, and do what he pleases, but he inevitably comes back to the track to which nature has destined him.
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There is nothing more frightful than ignorance in action.
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Do you want to live happily? Travel with two bags, one for giving, the other for receiving.
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Beware of dissipating your powers strive constantly to concentrate them.
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Reason can never be popular. Passions and feelings may become popular, but reason will always remain the sole property of a few eminent individuals.
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And I like those authors best whose scenes describe my own situation in life-- and the friends who are about me whose stories touch me with interest, from resembling my own homely existence.
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