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It is opposition that makes us productive.
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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A state of true and universal tolerance is best ensured by leaving alone the peculiarities of men and peoples.
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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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The beginning of faith is the beginning of fruitfulness but the beginning of unbelief, however glittering, is empty.
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Ingratitude is always a kind of weakness. I have never known men of ability to be ungrateful.
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Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing a confusion of the real with the ideal never goes unpunished.
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When the healthy nature of man acts as a whole, when he feels himself to be in the world as in a great, beautiful, noble, and valued whole, when harmonious ease affords him a pure and free delight, then the universe, if it could experience itself, would exult, as having attained its goal, and admire the climax of its own becoming and essence.
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The angles even Draw strength from gazing on its glance, Though none its meaning fathom may The world's unwither'd countenance Is bright as at creation's day.
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This is the highest wisdom that I own freedom and life are earned by those alone who conquer them each day anew.
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Everything perfect in its kind has to transcend its own kind, it must become something different and incomparable. In some notes the nightingale is still a bird then it rises above its class and seems to suggest to every winged creature what singing is truly like.
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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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One would give generous alms if one had the eyes to see the beauty of a cupped receiving hand.
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Man errs, till he has ceased to strive.
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My counsel is, to force nothing, and rather to trifle and sleep away all unproductive days and hours, than on such days to compose something that will afterwards give no pleasure.
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Do not, I beg you, look for anything behind phenomena. They are themselves their own lesson.
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Hatred is something peculiar. You will always find it strongest and most violent where there is the lowest degree of culture.
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Every beginning is cheerful.
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Don't give us your doubts, gives us your certainties, for we have doubts enough of our own.
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This is the true measure of love, When we believe that we alone can love, That no one could ever have loved so before us, And that no one will ever love in the same way after us.
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Happy the man who early learns the wide chasm that lies between his wishes and his powers.
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Nothing is more damaging to the truth than an old error.
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