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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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Light has called forth one organ to become its like, and thus the eye is formed by the light and for the light so that the inner light may emerge to meet the outer light.
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Humans fear reason, but they ought to fear stupidity- for reason can be hard, but stupidity can be fatal.
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People are always talking about originality, but what do they mean? As soon as we are born, the world begins to work upon us, and this goes on to the end.
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What I possess I would gladly retain. Change amuses the mind, yet scarcely profits.
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When the healthy nature of man acts as a whole, when he feels himself to be in the world as in a great, beautiful, noble, and valued whole, when harmonious ease affords him a pure and free delight, then the universe, if it could experience itself, would exult, as having attained its goal, and admire the climax of its own becoming and essence.
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Deeply earnest and thoughtful people stand on shaky footing with the public.
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Money lost, something lost. Honor lost, much lost. Courage lost, everything lost-better you were never born
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It would not be worth your while to reach the age of seventy if all the wisdom of the world were to be foolishness before God.
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If in the infinite you want to stride, Just walk in the finite to every side.
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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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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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Everything factual is, in a sense, theory. The blue of the sky exhibits the basic laws of chromatics. There is no sense in looking for something behind phenomena: they are theory.
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Ah! my poor brain is racked and crazed, My spirit and senses amazed!
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Here too it’s masquerade, I find: As everywhere, the dance of mind. I grasped a lovely masked procession, And caught things from a horror show… I’d gladly settle for a false impression, If it would last a little longer, though.
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I am fully convinced that the soul is indestructible, and its activity will continue through eternity.
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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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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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Hypotheses are only the pieces of scaffolding which are erected round a building during the course of construction, and which are taken away as soon as the edifice is completed.
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In all times it is only individuals that have advanced science, not the age.
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Before you can do something, you must first be something.
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