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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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They teach in academies far too many things, and far too much that is useless.
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You'll never attain it unless you know the feeling.
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Ah! my poor brain is racked and crazed, My spirit and senses amazed!
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When scholars study a thing, they strive to kill it first, if it's alive then they have the parts and the'be lost the whole, for the link that's missing was the living soul.
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Ignorant men raise questions that wise men answered a thousand years ago.
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Each indecision brings its own delays and days are lost lamenting over lost days... What you can do or think you can do, begin it. For boldness has magic, power, and genius in it.
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We are surrounded by abysses, but the greatest of all depths is in our own heart, and an irresistible leaning leads us there. Draw thyself from thyself!
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Hypotheses are the scaffolds which are erected in front of a building and removedd when the building is completed. They are indispensable to the worker but the worker must not mistake the scaffolding for the building.
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Thou art in the end what thou art. Put on wigs with millions of curls, set thy foot upon ell-high rocks. Thou abidest ever--what thou art.
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Mediocrity has no greater consolation than in the thought that genius is not immortal.
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Architecture is crystallized music.
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People are always talking about originality, but what do they mean? As soon as we are born, the world begins to work upon us, and this goes on to the end.
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What a day it is when we must envy the men in their graves.
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What sort of faults may we retain, nay, even cherish in ourselves? Those faults which are rather pleasant than offensive to others.
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I wish the crowd to feel itself well treated, Especially since it lives and lets me live.
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It is not given to us to grasp the truth, which is identical with the divine, directly. We perceive it only in reflection, in example and symbol, in singular and related appearances. It meets us as a kind of life which is incomprehensible to us, and yet we cannot free ourselves from the desire to comprehend it.
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Is it life, I ask, is it even prudence, To bore thyself and bore the students?
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