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One ought, every day at least, to hear a little song, read a good poem, see a fine picture, and, if it were possible, to speak a few reasonable words.
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Of all peoples, the Greeks have dreamt the dream of life best.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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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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In the end we retain from our studies only that which we practically apply.
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You don't love if you don't take the beloved's faults for virtues.
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There is nothing more frightful than ignorance in action.
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Da stehe ich nun, ich armer Thor!Und bin so klug als wie zuvor.
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The first and last thing demanded of genius is love of truth.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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I love those who yearn for the impossible.
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The world of empirical morality consists for the most part of nothing but ill will and envy.
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The important thing in life is to have a great aim, and the determination to attain it.
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Much there is I can stand. Most things not easy to sufferI bear with quiet resolve, just as a God commands it.Only a few things I find as repugnant as snakes and poison.These four: tobacco smoke, bedbugs and garlic and Christ.
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Art is long, life short, judgment difficult, opportunity transient. To act is easy, to think is hard; to act according to our thought is troublesome. Every beginning is cheerful: the threshold is the place of expectation.
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A man is really alive only when he delights in the good-will of others.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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No two men see the world exactly alike, and different temperaments will apply in different ways a principle that they both acknowledge. The same man will, indeed, often see and judge the same things differently on different occasions: early convictions must give way to more mature ones. Nevertheless, may not the opinions that a man holds and expresses withstand all trials, if he only remains true to himself and others?
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A world without love would be no world.
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One can't dull a project better than by discussing it repeatedly.
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For a brave man deserves a well-endowed girl.
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Daring ideas are like chessmen moved forward; they may be beaten, but they may start a winning game.
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A great revolution is never the fault of the people, but of the government.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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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.
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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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Pleasure and love are the pinions of great deeds.
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When the boy begins to understand that the visible point is preceded by an invisible point, that the shortest distance between two points is conceived as a straight line before it is ever drawn with pencil and paper...the fountain of all thought has been opened to him...the philosopher can reveal him nothing new, as a geometrician he has discovered the basis of all thought.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe