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Wisdom is only found in truth. [Ger., Die Weisheit ist nur in der Wahrheit.]

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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Painting predicates what man wants to see, and what man ought to see, not what he ordinarily sees.
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Science has been seriously retarded by the study of what is not worth knowing and of what is not knowable.
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Modern poets mix too much water with their ink. [Ger., Neuere Poeten thun viel Wasser in die Tinte.]
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When we treat man as he is, we make him worse than he is when we treat him as if he already were what he potentially could be, we make him what he should be.
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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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Talk well of the absent whenever you have the opportunity.
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It is better to be doing the most insignificant thing than to reckon even a half-hour insignificant.
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A man does not mind being blamed for his faults, and being punished for them, and he patiently suffers much for them but he becomes impatient if he is required to give them up.
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To appear at church every Sunday to look down upon, and let himself be looked at for an hour by the congregation, is the best means of becoming popular which can be recommended to a young sovereign.
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Mozart is a human incarnation of the divine force of creation.
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True religion teaches us to reverence what is under us, to recognize humility and poverty, and, despite mockery and disgrace, wretchedness, suffering, and death, as things divine.
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Of the truly creative no one is ever master it must be left to go its own way.
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Daring ideas are like chessmen moved forward they may be beaten, but they may start a winning game.
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But what is your duty? What the day demands. [Ger., Was aber ist deine Pflicht? Die Forderung des Tages.]
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Everything that we call Invention or Discovery in the higher sense of the word is the serious exercise and activity of an original feeling for truth, which, after a long course of silent cultivation, suddenly flashes out into fruitful knowledge.
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All theory, my friend, is grey, But green is life's glad golden tree.
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Whatever is the object of a saint's hope is the subject of his prayer.
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And those whom once my song had cheered and gladdened, If still they live, rove through the world now saddened.
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