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What is important in life is life, and not the result of life.
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When you take a man as he is, you make him worse. When you take a man as he can be, you make him better.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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The greater the knowledge, the greater the doubt.
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I am part of the part that once was everything, Part of the darkness which gave birth to light… Mephistopheles, from Faust.
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There are situations in which hope and fear run together, in which they mutually destroy one another and lose themselves in dull indifference.
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The Woman-Soul leadeth us upward and on!
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Ye great teachers: listen to what you say!
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Man can find no better retreat from the world than art, and man can find no stronger link with the world than art.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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The older we get the more we must limit ourselves if we wish to be active.
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He is a man whom it is impossible to please, because he is never pleased with himself.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe -
All truly wise thoughts have been thought already thousands of times; but to make them truly ours, we must think them over again honestly, until they take root in our personal experience.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe -
Age merely shows what children we remain.
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Thank God when he oppresses you, and again when he releases you.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe -
Solitude is fine when you are at peace with yourself and have something definite to do.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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Wisdom is found only in truth.
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We don't get to know anything but what we love.
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It is bad governments, not bad people, who cause revolutions.
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No one can take from us the joy of the first becoming aware of something, the so-called discovery. But if we also demand the honor, it can be utterly spoiled for us, for we are usually not the first. What does discovery mean, and who can say that he has discovered this or that? After all it's pure idiocy to brag about priority; for it's simply unconscious conceit, not to admit frankly that one is a plagiarist.
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Normally, the sciences distance themselves from life and the return to it via a detour.
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Since you know me and my destiny only too well, you probably also know what attracts me to all unfortunate people.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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Reality surpasses imagination; and we see, breathing, brightening, and moving before our eyes sights dearer to our hearts than any we ever beheld in the land of sleep.
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There are people who make no mistakes because they never wish to do anything worth doing.
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The aim of living is life itself.
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Gifts come from above in their own peculiar forms.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe