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True art can only spring from the intimate linking of the serious and the playful.
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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Frankfurt/Main
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Love can do much, but duty more.
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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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Nature does not suffer her veil to be taken from her, and what she does not choose to reveal to the spirit, thou wilt not wrest from her by levers and screws.
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Let us live, while we are alive!
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If we are out of synch with ourselves, everything is out of synch for us.
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In art, the best is good enough.
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What I possess I would gladly retain. Change amuses the mind, yet scarcely profits.
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A joy shared is a joy doubled.
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What is part of you, you cannot get rid of, even if you were to throw it away.
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I am what I am, so take me as I am!.
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The rose is wont with pride to swell, and ever seeks to rise.
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Most pioneers are at the mercy of doubt at the beginning, whether of their worth, of their theories, or of the whole enigmatic field in which they labour.
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The society of women is the element of good manners.
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If you are to accomplish all that one demands of you, you must overestimate your own worth.
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Analysis and synthesis are both as necessary to the thinking spirit as inspiration and expiration to the organism.
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Nothing is more terrible than to see ignorance in action.
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The light is there, and colors surround us. However, if there were no light nor colors in our own eye, we wouldn't perceive such things outside of us.
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For what one has in black and white, One can carry home in comfort.
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