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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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From desire I plunge to its fulfilment, where I long once more for desire.
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Who enslaves another's manhood with weak human power alone, Lays a heavier yoke of bondage thoughtlessly upon his own.
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Most pioneers are at the mercy of doubt at the beginning, whether of their worth, of their theories, or of the whole enigmatic field in which they labour.
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Unlimited activity, of whatever kind, must end in bankruptcy.
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Devote each day to the object then in time and every evening will find something done.
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What is not started today is never finished tomorrow.
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If we take people only as they are, then we make them worse if we treat them as if they were what they should be, then we bring them to where they can be brought.
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What people call the spirit of the times is mostly their own spirit in which the times mirror themselves.
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Rest not Life is sweeping by go and dare before you die. Something mighty and sublime, leave behind to conquer time.
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Destiny grants us our wishes, but in its own way, in order to give us something beyond our wishes.
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How can we learn self-knowledge? Never by taking thought but rather by action. Try to do your duty and you'll soon discover what you're like.
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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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What matters in art is not thinking but making.
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We gladly put antiquity above our age but not posterity. Only a father doesn't begrudge his son's talent.
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No matter what one says, you can recognize only those matters that are equal to you. Only rulers who possess extraordinary abilities will recognize and esteem properly extraordinary abilities in their subjects and servants.
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Unlike grown ups, children have little need to deceive themselves.
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To appreciate the noble is a gain which can never be torn from us.
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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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Normally, people believe that, if they hear just words, that these words must lead to some thought.
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There are people who make no mistakes because they never wish to do anything worth doing.
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