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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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All our knowledge is symbolic.
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This is the true measure of love, When we believe that we alone can love, That no one could ever have loved so before us, And that no one will ever love in the same way after us.
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What is the true test of character unless it be its progressive development in the bustle and turmoil, in the action and reaction of daily life.
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Do not, I beg you, look for anything behind phenomena. They are themselves their own lesson.
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Is it life, I ask, is it even prudence, To bore thyself and bore the students?
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Only law can give us freedom.
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One criticizes the English for carrying their teapots wherever they go, even lugging them up Mount Etna. But doesn't every nationhave its teapot, in which, even when traveling, it brews the dried bundles of herbs brought from home?
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Hatred is a heavy burden. It sinks the heart deep in the breast, and lies like a tombstone on all joys.
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Were the eye not of the sun, How could we behold the light? If God's might and ours were not as one, How could His work enchant our sight?
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Many hammer all over the wall and believe that with each blow they hit the nail on the head.
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The world is full of contradiction.
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Man is not born to solve the problem of the universe, but to find out what he has to do and to restrain himself within the limits of his comprehension.
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He only earns his freedom and his life Who takes them every day by storm.
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The finished man, you know, is difficult to please a growing mind will ever show you gratitude. --Faust 1, lines 182-3
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The miller believes that all the wheat grows so that his mill keeps running.
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Life is but a preparation for what there is to come.
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The fine emotions whence our lives we mold Lie in the earthly tumult dumb and cold.
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The suffering may be moral or physical and in my opinion it is just as absurd to call a man a coward who destroys himself, as to call a man a coward who dies of a malignant fever.
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It matters little whether a man be mathematically or philologically or artistically cultivated, so he be but cultivated.
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If I say to the moment: 'Stay now! You are so beautiful'!
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