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The aim of living is life itself.
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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Man usually believes, if only words he hears, That also with them goes material for thinking. [Ger., Gewohnlich glaubt der Mensch, wenn er nur Worte hort, Es musse sich dabei doch auch was denken.]
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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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The mind is found most acute and most uneasy in the morning. Uneasiness is, indeed, a species of sagacity - a passive sagacity. Fools are never uneasy.
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Death is a commingling of eternity with time in the death of a good man, eternity is seen looking through time.
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If a poet would work politically, he must give himself up to a party and so soon as he does that, he is lost as a poet.
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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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Superstition is part of the poetry of life.
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Everything that frees our spirit without giving us control of ourselves is ruinous.
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Talk well of the absent whenever you have the opportunity.
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The most foolish of all errors is for clever young men to believe that they forfeit their originality in recognizing a truth which has already been recognized by others.
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Normally, people believe that, if they hear just words, that these words must lead to some thought.
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Doesn't surprise me that Christ our Lord preferred to live with whores and sinners, seeing I go in for that myself.
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Man can only endure a certain degree of unhappiness what is beyond that either annihilates him or passes by him and leaves him apathetic
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To live in a great idea means to treat the impossible as though it were possible. It is just the same with a strong character and when an idea and a character meet, things arise which fill the world with wonder for thousands of years.
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The modern age has a false sense of superiority, because of the great mass of data at its disposal. But the valid criterion of distinction is rather the extent to which man knows how to form and master the material at his command.
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[W]hat counts is that one perceives excellence and dares to give it expression, which sounds little but is in fact a great deal.
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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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One is never satisfied with the portrait of a person that one knows.
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Beauty and Genius must be kept afar if one would avoid becoming their slave.
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There are only two lasting bequests we can hope to give our children. One of these is roots, the other, wings.
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