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Life's objective is life itself.
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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Since I have heard often enough that everyone in the end has his own religion, nothing seemed more natural to me than to fashion my own.
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Great endowments often announce themselves in youth in the form of singularity and awkwardness.
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Give shape, artist! don't talk! Your poem be but a breath.
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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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It is sometimes essential for a husband and a wife to quarrel - they get to know each other better.
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When we treat man as he is, we make him worse than he is when we treat him as if he already were what he potentially could be, we make him what he should be.
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The man of understanding finds everything laughable.
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Love can do much, but duty more.
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Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing a confusion of the real with the ideal never goes unpunished.
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As man is, so is his God. And thus is God oft strangely odd.
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I have possessed that heart, that noble soul, in whose presence I seemed to be more than I really was, because I was all that I could be.
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I believe in God and in nature and in the triumph of good over evil.
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What people call the spirit of the times is mostly their own spirit in which the times mirror themselves.
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Were not the eye made to receive the rays of the sun, it could not behold the sun if the peculiar power of God lay not in us, how could the godlike charm us?
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We lay aside letters never to read them again, and at last we destroy them out discretion, and so disappears the most immediate breath of life, irrecoverably for ourselves and for others.
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To know where a thing is we must have found it.
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Man... knows only when he is satisfied and when he suffers, and only his sufferings and his satisfactions instruct him concerning himself, teach him what to seek and what to avoid. For the rest, man is a confused creature he knows not whence he comes or whither he goes, he knows little of the world, and above all, he knows little of himself.
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What is my life if I am no longer useful to others.
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There are two things parents should give their children roots and wings. Roots to give them bearing and a sense of belonging, but also wings to help free them from constraints and prejudices and give them other ways to travel (or rather, to fly).
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Let everyone sweep in front of his own door, and the whole world will be clean.
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