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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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Death is a commingling of eternity with time in the death of a good man, eternity is seen looking through time.
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What is the path? There is no path. On into the unknown.
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Beautiful is greater than Good, for it includes the Good.
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It is commonly the personal character of a writer which gives him his public significance. It is not imparted by his genius. Napoleon said of Corneille, Were he living I would make him a king but he did not read him. He read Racine, yet he said nothing of the kind of Racine.
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It has been said that figures rule the world. Maybe. But I am sure that figures show us whether it is being ruled well or badly.
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Human life-everybody lives it, but only to a few is it known.
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It is better to do the smallest thing in the world than to hold half an hour to be too small a thing.
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The threshold is the place of expectation.
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If you want to make life easy, make it hard.
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Architecture is crystallized music.
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We are our own devils we drive ourselves out of our Edens.
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If I say to the moment: 'Stay now! You are so beautiful'!
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It is only in misery that we recognize the hand of God leading good men to good.
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Action has magic, grace and power in it.
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Who is the happiest man? He who is alive to the merit of others, and can rejoice in their enjoyment as if it were his own.
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Stones are mute teachers they silence the observer, and the most valuable lesson we learn from them we cannot communicate.
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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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Care is taken that trees do not grow into the sky.
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Truth is a torch, but a terrific one therefore we all try to reach it with closed eyes, lest we should be scorched.
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