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The most damaging prejudice consists of banning any kind of investigation of nature.
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 beautiful is a phenomenon which is never apparent of itself, but is reflected in a thousand different works of the creator.
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If you inquire what people are like here, I must answer, The same as everywhere.
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One needs only to get old to become milder I don't see anyone make a mistake I hadn't also made.
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Great thoughts and a pure heart, that is what we should ask from God.
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The intelligent man finds almost everything ridiculous, the sensible man hardly anything.
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If we take people only as they are, then we make them worse if we treat them as if they were what they should be, then we bring them to where they can be brought.
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If a good person does you wrong, act as though you had not noticed it. If we practice and eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth, soon the wholeworld will be blind and toothless.
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I am certain that I have been here as I am now a thousand times before, and I hope to return a thousand times... Man is a dialogue between nature and God. On other planets this dialogue will doubtless be of a higher and profounder character. What is lacking is Self-Knowledge. After that the rest will follow.
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Difficulties increase the nearer we get to the goal.
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Who strives always to the utmost, him can we save.
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All theory, my friend, is grey, But green is life's glad golden tree.
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Humans fear reason, but they ought to fear stupidity- for reason can be hard, but stupidity can be fatal.
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