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One must not criticize that which is common since it remains always the same.
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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But what is your duty? What the day demands. [Ger., Was aber ist deine Pflicht? Die Forderung des Tages.]
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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 right those who govern have to govern they don't question, they just govern. Whether the people have a right to depose them that doesn't concern them. All they are concerned with is that the people will not be tempted to depose them.
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Never by reflection, but only by doing is self- knowledge possible to one.
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People are so constituted that everybody would rather undertake what they see others do, whether they have an aptitude for it or not.
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