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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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On all the peaks lies peace.
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One needs only to get old to become milder I don't see anyone make a mistake I hadn't also made.
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By seeking and blundering we learn.
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Hold your powers together for something good and let everything go that is for you without result and is not suited to you.
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If we are out of synch with ourselves, everything is out of synch for us.
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It is as certain as it is strange that truth and error come from one and the same source. Thus it is that we are often not at liberty to do violence to error, because at the same time we do violence to truth.
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He who possesses art and science has religion he who does not possess them, needs religion.
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Piety is not an end, but a means: a means of attaining the highest culture by the purest tranquility of soul. Hence it may be observed that those who set up piety as an end and object are mostly hypocrites.
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Stones are mute teachers they silence the observer, and the most valuable lesson we learn from them we cannot communicate.
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When an idea is wanting, a word can always be found to take its place.
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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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The greatest genius will not be worth much if he pretends to draw exclusively from his own resources
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As soon as you trust yourself, you will know how to live.
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Everything in the world may be endured, except only a succession of prosperous days. [Ger., Alles in der Welt lasst sich ertragen, Nur nicht eine Reihe von schonen Tagen.]
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What is now the foliage moving? Air is still, and hush'd the breeze, Sultriness, this fullness loving, Through the thicket, from the trees. Now the eye at once gleams brightly, See! the infant band with mirth Moves and dances nimbly, lightly, As the morning gave it birth, Flutt'ring two and two o'er earth.
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The little man is still a man.
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Life is the childhood of our immortality.
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