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What is fruitful alone is true.
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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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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All that is transitory is but a metaphor.
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Culture which smooth the whole world licks, Also unto the devil sticks.
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It is one of Heaven's best gifts to hold such a dear creature in one's arms.
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The formation of one's character ought to be everyone's chief aim.
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Whenever I hear people talking about liberal ideas, I am always astounded that men should love to fool themselves with empty sounds. An idea should never be liberal it must be vigorous, positive, and without loose ends so that it may fulfill its divine mission and be productive.
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The whole art of living consists in giving up existence in order to exist.
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The most difficult thing is what is thought to be the simplest to really see the things which are before your eyes.
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One is never deceived one deceives oneself.
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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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Method will teach you to win time.
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In politics people throw themselves, as on a sickbed, from one side to the other in the belief they will lie more comfortably.
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Here too it’s masquerade, I find: As everywhere, the dance of mind. I grasped a lovely masked procession, And caught things from a horror show… I’d gladly settle for a false impression, If it would last a little longer, though.
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The senses do not deceive us, but the judgment does.
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The works of Lavoisier and his associates operated upon many of us at that time like the Sun's rising after a night of moonshine: but Chemistry is now betrothed to the Mathematics, and is in consequence grown somewhat shy of her former admirers.
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Thinking is easy, acting is difficult, and to put one's thoughts into action is the most difficult thing in the world.
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Talent is nurtured in solitude character is formed in the stormy billows of the world. [Ger., Es bildet ein talent sich in der Stille, Sich ein Charakter in dem Strom der Welt.]
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If you have science and art, You also have religion But if you don't have them, You better have religion.
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No one feels himself easy in a garden which does not look like the open country.
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Personality is everything in art and poetry.
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