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Self knowledge is best learned not by contemplation, but by action.
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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None are so hopelessly enslaved, as those who falsely believe they are free. The truth has been kept from the depth of their minds by masters who rule them with lies. They feed them on falsehoods till wrong looks like right in their eyes.
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It is better to be doing the most insignificant thing than to reckon even a half-hour insignificant.
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To appear at church every Sunday to look down upon, and let himself be looked at for an hour by the congregation, is the best means of becoming popular which can be recommended to a young sovereign.
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Willing is not enough, we must do.
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Life teaches us to be less harsh with ourselves and with others.
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Someone criticized an elderly man for wooing young women. He replied that that was the only way to rejuvenation, which was, afterall, everybody's wish.
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Then to the depths! - I could as well say height: It's all the same.
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There is nothing in the world more pitiable than an irresolute man, oscillating between two feelings, who would willingly unite the two and who does not perceive that nothing can unite them
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For what one has in black and white, One can carry home in comfort.
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Science has been seriously retarded by the study of what is not worth knowing and of what is not knowable.
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Mannerism is always longing to have done, and has no true enjoyment in work. A genuine, really great talent, on the other hand, has its greatest happiness in execution.
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He who enjoys doing and enjoys what he has done is happy.
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Of the truly creative no one is ever master it must be left to go its own way.
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Voluntary dependence is the wonderful form of existence, and how could that be possible without love?
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A true German can't stand the French, Yet willingly he drinks their wines.
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The mob has nothing to lose, everything to gain.
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