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Men Are So Inclined To Content Themselves With What Is Commonest; The Spirit And The Senses So Easily Grow Dead To The Impressions Of The Beautiful And Perfect, That Every One Should Study, By All Methods, To Nourish In His Mind The Faculty Of Feeling These Things. ...for This Reason, 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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Men Are So Inclined

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

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Men Are So Inclined To Content Themselves With What Is Commonest; The Spirit And The Senses So Easily Grow Dead To The Impressions Of The Beautiful And Perfect, That Every One Should Study, By All Methods, To Nourish In His Mind The Faculty Of Feeling These Things. ...for This Reason, 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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In Praising Or Loving A Child, We Love And Praise Not That Which Is, But That Which We Hope For.

Time Flies, And What Is Past Is Done.

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A Great Scholar Is Seldom A Great Philosopher.

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Superstition Is The Poetry Of Life.

A Man Sees In The World What He Carries In His Heart.

If We Could Do Away With Death, We Wouldn't Object; To Do Away With Capital Punishment Will Be More Difficult. Were That To Happen, We Would Reinstate It From Time To Time.

Thou Tremblest Before Anticipated Ills, And Still Bemoanest What Thou Never Losest.

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To A Valet No Man Is A Hero. [ger., Es Gibt Fur Den Kammerdiener Keiner Helden.]

Even Though The World As A Whole Progresses, Youth Must Always Start Again From The Beginning, And As Individuals Go Through The Epochs Of The World's Culture.

Is It Life, I Ask, Is It Even Prudence, To Bore Thyself And Bore The Students?

Art Is A Mediator Of The Unspeakable.

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It Is Not Doing The Thing We Like To Do, But Liking The Thing We Have To Do, That Makes Life Blessed.

The Society Of Women Is The Element Of Good Manners.

The Follies Of The Wise Man Are Known To Himself, But Hidden From The World.

Reasonable Men Are The Best Dictionaries Of Conversation.

The Most Damaging Prejudice Consists Of Banning Any Kind Of Investigation Of Nature.

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Sing It Not In Mournful Numbers.

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Too Rigid Scruples Are Concealed Pride.

Character, In Great And Little Things, Means Carrying Through What You Feel Able To Do.

The Evil One Has Left, The Evil Ones Remain.

Take Life Too Seriously, And What Is It Worth? If The Morning Wake Us To No New Joys, If The Evening Bring Us Not The Hope Of New Pleasure, Is It Worthwhile To Dress And Undress?

What Is Predestination? Answer: God Is More Powerful And Wiser Than We Are, Therefore He Deals With Us According To His Pleasure.

Every Solution Of A Problem Is A New Problem.

Quite Often, As Life Goes On, When We Feel Completely Secure As We Go On Our Way, We Suddenly Notice That We Are Trapped In Error, That We Have Allowed Ourselves To Be Taken In By Individuals, By Objects, Have Dreamt Up An Affinity With Them Which Immediately Vanishes Before Our Waking Eye; And Yet We Cannot Tear Ourselves Away, Held Fast By Some Power That Seems Incomprehensible To Us. Sometimes, However, We Become Fully Aware And Realize That Error As Well As Truth Can Move And Spur Us On To Action.

Courage And Modesty Are The Most Unequivocal Of Virtues, For They Are Of A Kind That Hypocrisy Cannot Imitate; They Too Have This Quality In Common, That They Are Expressed By The Same Color.

Fret Not Over The Irretrievable, But Ever Act As If Thy Life Were Just Begun.

Once You Have Missed The First Buttonhole, You'll Never Manage To Button Up.

There Is Nothing Worse Than Aggressive Stupidity.

Hold Your Powers Together For Something Good And Let Everything Go That Is For You Without Result And Is Not Suited To You.

Mystery Is Truth's Dancing Partner.

What Government Is The Best? That Which Teaches Us To Govern Ourselves. [ger., Welche Regierung Die Beste Sei? Diejenige Die Uns Lehrt Uns Selbst Zu Regieren.]

A Useless Life Is An Early Death. [ger., Ein Unnutz Leben Ist Ein Fruher Tod.]

The Greatest Thing In This World Is Not So Much Where We Stand As In What Direction We Are Moving.

It Is The Nature Of Grace Always To Fill Spaces That Have Been Empty.

Since You Know Me And My Destiny Only Too Well, You Probably Also Know What Attracts Me To All Unfortunate People.

Always To Distrust Is An Error, As Well As Always To Trust.

The Effects Of Good Music Are Not Just Because It's New; On The Contrary Music Strikes Us More The More Familiar We Are With It.

Wisdom Is Found Only In Truth.

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I Have Come To The Frightening Conclusion That I Am The Decisive Element. It Is My Personal Approach That Creates The Climate.

Thus I Reel From Desire To Fulfillment And In Fulfillment Languish For Desire.

The Greatest Step Forward Would Be To See That Everything Factual Is Already Theory. The Blueness Of The Sky Reveals The Basic Lawof Chromatics. Don't Look For Anything Behind The Phenomena, They Themselves Are The Doctrine.

Shakespeare Is Dangerous To Young Poets; They Cannot But Reproduce Him, While They Fancy That They Produce Themselves.

We Can't Form Our Children On Our Own Concepts; We Must Take Them And Love Them As God Gives Them To Us.

All One Needs To Do Is Declare Oneself Free And One Will Immediately Feel Dependent. If You Dare To Declare Yourself Dependent, You Feel Independent.

Man Knows Himself Only Insofar As He Knows The World, Becoming Aware Of It If Only Within Himself, And Of Himself Self Only Within It. Each New Subject, Well Observed, Opens Up Within Us A New Organ Of Thought.

I've Often Heard It Said A Preacher Might Learn With A Comedian For A Teacher.

Do Not, I Beg You, Look For Anything Behind Phenomena. They Are Themselves Their Own Lesson.

What A Mighty Spirit In A Narrow Bosom. [ger., Welch' Hoher Geist In Einer Engen Brust.]

There Are People Who Pay Attention To The Weaknesses Of Their Friends; That Is To No Avail. I Have Always Closely Watched And Profited From The Strengths Of My Adversaries.

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