Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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“The mediator of the inexpressible is the work of art.” -Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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“This is the highest wisdom that I own freedom and life are earned by those alone who conquer them each day anew.” -Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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“First and last, what is demanded of genius is love of truth.” -Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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“As soon as you trust yourself, you will know how to live.” -Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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“We always have time enough, if we will but use it aright.” -Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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“Only by joy and sorrow does a person know anything about themselves and their destiny. They learn what to do and what to avoid.” -Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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“Where is the man who has the strength to be true, and to show himself as he is?” -Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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“One can be instructed in society, one is inspired only in solitude.” -Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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“The credit of advancing science has always been due to individuals and never to the age.” -Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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“Being brilliant is no great feat if you respect nothing.” -Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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“The Christian religion, though scattered and abroad will in the end gather itself together at the foot of the cross.” -Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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“Dream no small dreams for they have no power to move the hearts of men.” -Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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“Superstition is the poetry of life.” -Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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“Piety is not a goal but a means to attain through the purest peace of mind the highest culture.” -Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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“In nature we never see anything isolated, but everything in connection with something else which is before it, beside it, under it and over it.” -Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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“Music is either sacred or secular. The sacred agrees with its dignity, and here has its greatest effect on life, an effect that remains the same through all ages and epochs. Secular music should be cheerful throughout.” -Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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“Many people take no care of their money till they come nearly to the end of it, and others do just the same with their time.” -Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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“To the person with a firm purpose all men and things are servants.” -Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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“There is a courtesy of the heart it is allied to love. From its springs the purest courtesy in the outward behavior.” -Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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“To witness two lovers is a spectacle for the gods.” -Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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“Life belongs to the living, and he who lives must be prepared for changes.” -Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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“We know accurately only when we know little, with knowledge doubt increases.” -Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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“Those who hope for no other life are dead even for this.” -Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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“Go to foreign countries and you will get to know the good things one possesses at home.” -Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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“A really great talent finds its happiness in execution.” -Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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“Character, in great and little things, means carrying through what you feel able to do.” -Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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“Which government is the best? The one that teaches us to govern ourselves.” -Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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“To rule is easy, to govern difficult.” -Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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“In art the best is good enough.” -Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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“I do not know myself, and God forbid that I should.” -Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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“He only earns his freedom and his life Who takes them every day by storm.” -Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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“It is the strange fate of man, that even in the greatest of evils the fear of the worst continues to haunt him.” -Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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“Wood burns because it has the proper stuff in it and a man becomes famous because he has the proper stuff in him.” -Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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“Dream no small dreams for they have no power to move the hearts of men.” -Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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“An unused life is an early death.” -Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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“Science arose from poetry… when times change the two can meet again on a higher level as friends.” -Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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“If I love you, what business is it of yours?” -Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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“One cannot develop taste from what is of average quality but only from the very best.” -Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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“Beauty is everywhere a welcome guest.” -Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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“It is after all the greatest art to limit and isolate oneself.” -Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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“I call architecture frozen music.” -Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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The artist alone sees spirits. But after he has told of their appearing to him, everybody sees them. – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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The credit of advancing science has always been due to individuals and never to the age. – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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