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A phenomenon like Mozart remains an inexplicable thing.
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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The moment one definitely commits oneself, then Providence moves too. Whatever you think you can do, or believe you can do, begin it. Action has magic, power and grace.
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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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Whoever, in middle age, attempts to realize the wishes and hopes of his early youth, invariably deceives himself. Each ten years of a man's life has its own fortunes, its own hopes, its own desires.
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When I make a mistake everyone can see it, but not when I lie.
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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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What is the universal? The single case. What is the particular? Millions of cases.
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Whoever would do good in the world, ought not to deal in censure. We ought not to destroy, but rather construct.
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A genuine work of art usually displeases at first sight, as it suggests a deficiency in the spectator.
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Old age is never honored among us, but only indulged, as childhood is and old men lose one of the most precious rights of man,--that of being judged by their peers.
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All that is transitory is but a metaphor.
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The eye doesn't see any shapes, it sees only what is differentiated through light and dark or through colors.
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He who is plenteously provided for from within needs but little from without.
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Fools and wise men are equally harmless. It is the half-fools and half-wise that are dangerous.
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Where there are no women there are no good manners
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If society gives up the right to impose the death penalty, then self-help will appear again and personal vendettas will be around the corner.
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It has been said that figures rule the world. Maybe. But I am sure that figures show us whether it is being ruled well or badly.
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The world of reason is to be regarded as a great and immortal being, who ceaselessly works out what is necessary, and so makes himself lord also over what is accidental.
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What do people mean when they talk about unhappiness? It is not so much unhappiness as impatience that from time to time possesses men, and then they choose to call themselves miserable.
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Talents are nurtured best in solitude, But character on life's tempestuous seas!
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The one who acts is always without conscience nobody has a conscience but the contemplative person.
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