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Hypotheses are scaffoldings erected in front of a building and then dismantled when the building is finished. They are indispensable for the workman; but you mustn't mistake the scaffolding for the building.
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Three things are to be looked to in a building: that it stand on the right spot; that it be securely founded; that it be successfully executed.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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Nothing is so atrocious as fancy without taste.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe -
Alles Gescheite ist schon gedacht worden. Man muss nur versuchen, es noch einmal zu denken.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe -
Please send me your last pair of shoes, worn out with dancing as you mentioned in your letter, so that I might have something to press against my heart.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe -
It is not enough to take steps which may someday lead to a goal; each step must be itself a goal and a step likewise.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe -
Blut ist ein ganz besondrer Saft.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe -
For I have been a man, and that means to have been a fighter.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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Willst du immer weiterschweifen? Sieh, das Gute liegt so nah.Lerne nur das Glück ergreifen,denn das Glück ist immer da.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe -
Die Wissenschaft hilft uns vor allem, daß sie das Staunen, wozu wir von Natur berufen find.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe -
Who wants to understand the poemMust go to the land of poetry;Who wishes to understand the poetMust go to the poet's land.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe -
The dangers of life are infinite, and among them is safety.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe -
The artist may be well advised to keep his work to himself till it is completed, because no one can readily help him or advise him with it...but the scientist is wiser not to withhold a single finding or a single conjecture from publicity.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe -
A distracted existence leads us to no goal.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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We do not have to visit a madhouse to find disordered minds; our planet is the mental institution of the universe.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe -
To the world you might be one person, but to one person, you might be the world. Kindness is the golden chain by which our world is bound together.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe -
Time is my estate: to Time I'm heir.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe -
Alles Vergängliche ist nur ein Gleichnis.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe -
The fate of the architect is the strangest of all. How often he expends his whole soul, his whole heart and passion, to produce buildings into which he himself may never enter.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe -
A joy shared is a joy doubled.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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We can't form our children on our own concepts; we must take them and love them as God gives them to us.
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'I have found a paper of mine among some others in which I call architecture 'petrified music.' Really there is something in this; the tone of mind produced by architecture approaches the effect of music.'
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe -
The world is so empty if one thinks only of mountains, rivers and cities; but to know someone who thinks and feels with us, and who, though distant, is close to us in spirit, this makes the earth for us an inhabited garden.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe -
If I work incessantly to the last, nature owes me another form of existence when the present one collapses.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe