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Unter allen Völkerschaften haben die Griechen den Traum des Lebens am schönsten geträumt.
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Nothing is so atrocious as fancy without taste.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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Alles Gescheite ist schon gedacht worden. Man muss nur versuchen, es noch einmal zu denken.
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When one is polite in German, one lies.
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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.
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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.
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For I have been a man, and that means to have been a fighter.
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Die Wissenschaft hilft uns vor allem, daß sie das Staunen, wozu wir von Natur berufen find.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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The dangers of life are infinite, and among them is safety.
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Blut ist ein ganz besondrer Saft.
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.
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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 -
Who wants to understand the poemMust go to the land of poetry;Who wishes to understand the poetMust go to the poet's land.
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A joy shared is a joy doubled.
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.
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A distracted existence leads us to no goal.
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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.
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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.'
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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.
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Let the noble man Be generous and good, Tirelessly achieving What is just and useful: Let him be a model For those beings whom he surmises.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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Instruction does much, but encouragement everything.
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One must be something in order to do something.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe -
Time is my estate: to Time I'm heir.
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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.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe