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God made man simple, but how he changed and got complicated is hard to say.

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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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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There is no past we can bring back by longing for it. There is only an eternal now that builds and creates out of the past something new and better.
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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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With the growth of knowledge our ideas must from time to time be organized afresh. The change takes place usually in accordance with new maxims as they arise, but it always remains provisional.
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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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It is the fortunate who should extol fortune. [Ger., Das Gluck erhebe billig der Begluckte.]
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In happy ignorance, I sighed for a world I did not know, where I hoped to find every pleasure and enjoyment which my heart could desire and now, on my return from that wide world... how many disappointed hopes and unsuccessful plans have I brought back!
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The misfortune in the state is, that nobody can enjoy life in peace, but that everybody must govern and in art, that nobody will enjoy what has been produced, but that every one wants to reproduce on his own account.
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It is said, that no one is a hero to their butler. The reason is, that it requires a hero to recognize a hero. The butler, however, will probably know well how to estimate his equals.
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A reasonable man needs only to practice moderation to find happiness.
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The hardest thing is to see what's under your very eyes.
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Modern poets mix too much water with their ink. [Ger., Neuere Poeten thun viel Wasser in die Tinte.]
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There is nothing more frightful than for a teacher to know only what his scholars are intended to know.
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Error is to truth as sleep is to waking. I have observed that one turns, as if refreshed, from error back to truth.
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The history of knowledge is a great fugue in which the voices of the nations one after the other emerge.
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No one knows what he is doing so long as he is acting rightly but of what is wrong one is always conscious.
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