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What is the universal? The single case. What is the particular? Millions of cases.

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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Age: 82 †
Born: 1749
Born: August 22
Died: 1832
Died: March 22
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He only earns his freedom and his life Who takes them every day by storm.
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My peace is gone, my heart is heavy. [Ger., Meine Ruh ist hin, Mein Herz ist schwer.]
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A man who is ignorant of foreign languages is also ignorant of his own language.
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What is the path? There is no path. On into the unknown.
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Let mental culture go on advancing, let the natural sciences progress in even greater extent and depth, and the human mind widen itself as much as it desires: beyond the elevation and moral culture of Christianity, as it shines forth in the Gospels, it will not go.
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Life is but a preparation for what there is to come.
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Errors belong to libraries truth, to the human mind.
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Is not the core of nature in the heart of man?
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Once you have missed the first buttonhole, you'll never manage to button up.
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Why should we not recognize in the lightning, the thunder, and the storm wind, the approach of an overwhelming Power, and in the scent of flowers and the gently rustling zephyr the presence of a Being full of love?
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What a mighty spirit in a narrow bosom. [Ger., Welch' hoher Geist in einer engen Brust.]
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Three things are to be looked to in a building: that it stand on the right spot that it is securely founded that it be successfully executed.
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We are accustomed to see men deride what they do not understand, and snarl at the good and beautiful because it lies beyond their sympathies
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A judge who cannot punish, in the end associates themselves with the criminal.
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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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Nothing is more terrible than to see ignorance in action.
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I am part of the part that once was everything, Part of the darkness which gave birth to light… Mephistopheles, from Faust.
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Upon the creatures we have made, we are, ourselves, at last, dependent.
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As a man is, so is his God therefore God was so often an object of mockery. [Ger., Wie einer ist, so ist sein Gott, Darum ward Gott so oft zu Spott.]
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