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Everyone only hears what he understands.
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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Frankfurt/Main
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Nature! We are enveloped and embraced by her, incapable of emerging from her and incapable of entering her more deeply. Unbidden and unwarned, she receives us into the circuits of her dance, drifting onward with us herself, until we grow tired and drop from her arms.
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But one must know where one stands, and where the others wish to go.
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Science arose from poetry... when times change the two can meet again on a higher level as friends.
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One cannot develop taste from what is of average quality but only from the very best.
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The angles even Draw strength from gazing on its glance, Though none its meaning fathom may The world's unwither'd countenance Is bright as at creation's day.
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Man believes himself always greater than he is, and is esteemed less than he is worth.
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In art it's not the thinking that does the job, but making.
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There is no patriotic art.
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Three things are to be looked to in a building: that it stand on the right spot that it is securely founded that it be successfully executed.
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So much has already been said about Shakespeare that there doesn't seem to be anything more to say yet it is the quality of the spirit that it forever stimulates the spirit.
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Confronted by outstanding merit, there is no way of saving one's ego except by love
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We all walk in mysteries. We are surrounded by an atmosphere about which we still know nothing at all.
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If you've never eaten while crying you don t know what life tastes like.
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If you inquire what people are like here, I must answer, The same as everywhere.
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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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What matters in art is not thinking but making.
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I am what I am, so take me as I am!.
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