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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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Tolerance should, strictly speaking, be only a passing mood it ought to lead to acknowledgment and appreciation. To tolerate a person is to affront him.
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The more one knows, the more one comprehends, the more one realizes that everything turns in a circle.
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I am certain that I have been here as I am now a thousand times before, and I hope to return a thousand times... Man is a dialogue between nature and God. On other planets this dialogue will doubtless be of a higher and profounder character. What is lacking is Self-Knowledge. After that the rest will follow.
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Forget not that the man who cannot enjoy his own natural gifts in silence, and find his reward in the exercise of them, will generally find himself badly off.
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Mozart is a human incarnation of the divine force of creation.
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Every step of life shows much caution is required.
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Then to the depths! - I could as well say height: It's all the same.
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Who can think wise or stupid things at all that were not thought already in the past.
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We cannot and must not get rid of nor deny our characteristics. But we can give them shape and direction.
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Thus I reel from desire to fulfillment and in fulfillment languish for desire.
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The most fortunate of men, Be he a king or commoner, is he Whose welfare is assured in his own home.
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Viewed from the summit of reason, all life looks like a malignant disease and the world like a madhouse.
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What is predestination? Answer: God is more powerful and wiser than we are, therefore he deals with us according to his pleasure.
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When two people are really happy about one another one can generally assume they are mistaken.
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It is opposition that makes us productive.
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Words express neither objects nor ourselves.
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What is the destiny of man, but to fill up the measure of his sufferings, and to drink his allotted cup of bitterness?
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Let no one be ashamed to say yes today if yesterday he said no. Or to say no today if yesterday he said yes. For that is life. Never to have changed-what a pitiable thing of which to boast!
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If you inquire what people are like here, I must answer, The same as everywhere.
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