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Certain books seem to be written, not that we might learn from them, but in order that we might see how much the author knows.

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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The real scholar learns how to evolve the unknown from the known, and draws near the master.
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Alas, that we should be so unwilling to listen to the still and holy yearnings of the heart! A god whispers quite softly in our breast, softly yet audibly telling us what we ought to seek and what to shun.
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If the world does improve on the whole, yet youth must always begin anew, and go through the stages of culture from the beginning.
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Let us not dream that reason can ever be popular. Passions, emotions, may be made popular but reason remains ever the property of an elect few.
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Nothing will change the fact that I cannot produce the least thing without absolute solitude.
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Beauty can never really understand itself.
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Higher yet and higher out of clouds and night, nearer yet and nearer rising to the light - light, serene and holy where my soul may rest, purified and lowly, sanctified and blest.
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I have found among my papers a sheet . . . in which I call architecture frozen music.
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Science and art belong to the whole world, and before them vanish the barriers of nationality.
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The light is there, and colors surround us. However, if there were no light nor colors in our own eye, we wouldn't perceive such things outside of us.
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If you don't know foreign languages, you don't know anything about your own.
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It is opposition that makes us productive.
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I hold to faith in the divine love - which, so many years ago for a brief moment in a little corner of the earth, walked about as a man bearing the name of Jesus Christ - as the foundation on which alone my happiness rests.
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When toward the Devil's Hose we tread, Woman's a thousand steps behind. [Ger., Denn geht es zu des Bosen Haus Das Weib hat tausend Schritt voraus.]
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One must be something, in order to do something.
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The artist has a twofold relation to nature he is at once her master and her slave.
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One must not criticize that which is common since it remains always the same.
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If you lay duties upon people and give them no rights, you must pay them well.
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