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Our senses don't deceive us: our judgment does.
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Until one is committed, there is hesitancy, the chance to draw back, always ineffectiveness. Concerning all acts of initiation - creation - there is one elementary truth, the ignorance of which kills countless ideas and splendid plans.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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A teacher who can arouse a feeling for one single good action, for one single good poem, accomplishes more than he who fills our memory with rows on rows of natural objects, classified with name and form.
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The Christian religion, though scattered and abroad will in the end gather itself together at the foot of the cross.
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Man supposes that he directs his life and governs his actions, when his existence is irretrievably under the control of destiny.
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To know someone here or there with whom you can feel there is understanding in spite of distances or thoughts expressed That can make life a garden.
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The human mind will not be confined to any limits.
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Alles ist einfacher, als man denken kann, zugleich verschränkter, als zu begreifen ist.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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All Nine often used to come to me, I mean the Muses:But I ignored them: my girl was in my arms.Now I’ve left my sweetheart: and they’ve left me,And I roll my eyes, seeking a knife or rope.But Heaven is full of gods: You came to aid me:Greetings, Boredom, mother of the Muse.
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My inheritance how lordly wide and fair; Time is my fair seed-field, to Time I'm heir.
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How to please the public - that's the test, But nowadays I find I'm in a fix; I know they're not accustomed to the best, But they've all read so much they know the tricks. How can we give then something fresh and new That's serious, but entertaining too?
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Meine Ruh' ist hin,Mein Herz ist schwer.
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Yes, I have finally arrived to this Capital of the World! I now see all the dreams of my youth coming to life... Only in Rome is it possible to understand Rome.
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Getting along with women, Knocking around with men, Having more credit than money, Thus one goes through the world.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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Is it so big a mystery what god and man and world are? No! but nobody knows how to solve it so the mystery hangs on.
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Nothing is more damaging to a new truth than an old error.
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So gewiß ist der allein glücklich und groß, der weder zu herrschen noch zu gehorchen braucht, um etwas zu sein!
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The desire to explain what is simple by what is complex, what is easy by what is difficult, is a calamity affecting the whole body of science, known, it is true, to men of insight, but not generally admitted.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe -
Zwey Seelen wohnen, ach! in meiner Brust.
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The nude is the perfect expression of freedom. Freedom to be.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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Behaviour is a mirror in which everyone shows his image.
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Fools and wise men are equally harmless. It is the half-fools and half-wise that are dangerous.
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Belief is not the beginning of knowledge - it is the end.
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The society of women is the element of good manners.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe