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The present is a powerful deity. [Ger., Die Gegenwart ist eine machtige Gottin.]
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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To live in a great idea means to treat the impossible as though it were possible. It is just the same with a strong character and when an idea and a character meet, things arise which fill the world with wonder for thousands of years.
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One should not search for anything behind the phenomena. They themselves are the message.
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Zweck sein selbst ist jegliches Tier. Each animal is an end in itself.
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Seldom in the business and transactions of ordinary life, do we find the sympathy we want.
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Man is made by his belief. As he believes, so he is.
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