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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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Do not, I beg you, look for anything behind phenomena. They are themselves their own lesson.
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The old lose one of the greatest privileges of man, for they are no longer judged by their contemporaries.
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The Christian religion, though scattered and abroad will in the end gather itself together at the foot of the cross.
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Objects in pictures should so be arranged as by their very position to tell their own story.
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I don't know a greater advantage, than to appreciate the worth of an enemy.
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I have found a paper of mine among some others in which I call architecture 'petrified music.' Really there is something in this the tone of mind produced by architecture approaches the effect of music.
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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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To live in a great idea means to treat the impossible as though it were possible. It is just the same with a strong character and when an idea and a character meet, things arise which fill the world with wonder for thousands of years.
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There is nothing more fearful than imagination without taste. [Ger., Es ist nichts furchterlicher als Einbildungskraft ohne Geschmack.]
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By nature we have no defect that could not become a strength, no strength that could not become a defect.
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Let your trouble be Light will follow dark Though the heaven falls You may hear the lark.
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Viewed from the summit of reason, all life looks like a malignant disease and the world like a madhouse.
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When two men quarrel, who owns the cooler head is the more to blame.
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Every solution of a problem is a new problem.
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The heights charm us, but the steps do not with the mountain in our view we love to walk the plains.
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Colors are light's suffering and joy
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Since Time is not a person we can overtake when he is gone, let us honor him with mirth and cheerfulness of heart while he is passing.
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