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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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Noble be man, Helpful and good! For that alone Sets him apart From every other creature On earth.
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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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He who knows no foreign languages knows nothing of his own.
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The world is for thousands a freak show the images flicker past and vanish the impressions remain flat and unconnected in the soul. Thus they are easily led by the opinions of others, are content to let their impressions be shuffled and rearranged and evaluated differently.
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Once you have missed the first buttonhole, you'll never manage to button up.
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If a poet would work politically, he must give himself up to a party and so soon as he does that, he is lost as a poet.
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I will listen to anyone's convictions, but pray keep your doubts to yourself.
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I reverence the individual who understands distinctly what he wishes who unweariedly advances, who knows the means conducive to his object, and can seize and use them.
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No prudent antagonist thinks light of his adversaries.
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That is the way of youth and life in general: that we do not understand the strategy until after the campaign is over.
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Human life runs its course in the metamorphosis between receiving and giving.
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They should be ashamed of themselves, all these sober people!
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There is nothing in the world more pitiable than an irresolute man, oscillating between two feelings, who would willingly unite the two and who does not perceive that nothing can unite them
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To every one [Nature] appears in a form of his own. She hides herself in a thousand names and terms, and is always the same.
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What a day it is when we must envy the men in their graves.
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He who does not think much of himself is much more esteemed than he imagines.
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How happy he who can still hope to lift himself from this sea of error! What we know not, that we are anxious to possess, and cannot use what we know.
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