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There is no patriotic art.
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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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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There is no patriotic art and no patriotic science.
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We amuse ourselves painting our prison-walls with bright figures and brilliant landscapes.
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Humor is one of the elements of genius--admirable as an adjunct but as soon as it becomes dominant, only a surrogate for genius.
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One says a lot in vain, refusing The other mainly hears the No.
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True religion teaches us to reverence what is under us, to recognize humility and poverty, and, despite mockery and disgrace, wretchedness, suffering, and death, as things divine.
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I will listen to anyone's convictions, but pray keep your doubts to yourself.
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What is predestination? Answer: God is more powerful and wiser than we are, therefore he deals with us according to his pleasure.
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He who possesses art and science has religion he who does not possess them, needs religion.
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Excellence is rarely found, more rarely valued.
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Choose well. Your choice is brief, and yet endless.
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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... knows only when he is satisfied and when he suffers, and only his sufferings and his satisfactions instruct him concerning himself, teach him what to seek and what to avoid. For the rest, man is a confused creature he knows not whence he comes or whither he goes, he knows little of the world, and above all, he knows little of himself.
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A man may twist as he pleases, and do what he pleases, but he inevitably comes back to the track to which nature has destined him.
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We can stand only a certain amount of unhappiness anything beyond that annihilates us or passes us by, leaving us apathethetic.
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