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Nature! We Live In Her Midst And Know Her Not. She Is Incessantly Speaking To Us, But Betrays Not Her Secret. We Constantly Act Upon Her, And Yet Have No Power Over Her. Variant: Nature! We Are Surrounded And Embraced By Her: Powerless To Separate Ourselves From Her, And Powerless To Penetrate Beyond Her.

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Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

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Nature! We Live In Her Midst And Know Her Not. She Is Incessantly Speaking To Us, But Betrays Not Her Secret. We Constantly Act Upon Her, And Yet Have No Power Over Her. Variant: Nature! We Are Surrounded And Embraced By Her: Powerless To Separate Ourselves From Her, And Powerless To Penetrate Beyond Her.

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Let Us Seek To Fathom Those Things That Are Fathomable And Reserve Those Things Which Are Unfathomable For Reverence In Quietude.

Everything Perfect In Its Kind Has To Transcend Its Own Kind, It Must Become Something Different And Incomparable. In Some Notes The Nightingale Is Still A Bird; Then It Rises Above Its Class And Seems To Suggest To Every Winged Creature What Singing Is Truly Like.

One Mind Is Enough For A Thousand Hands.

Art Will Always Be Art.

To Be Sure, We Have Inherited Abilities, But Our Development We Owe To Thousands Of Influences Coming From The World Around Us From Which We Appropriate What We Can And What Is Suitable To Us.

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He Who Possesses Art And Science Has Religion; He Who Does Not Possess Them, Needs Religion.

Few Men Have Imagination Enough For Reality.

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America, You Have It Better Than Our Continent, The Old One.

Personality Is Everything In Art And Poetry.

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If We Meet Someone Who Owes Us A Debt Of Gratitude, We Remember The Fact At Once. How Often We Can Meet Someone To Whom We Owe A Debt Of Gratitude Without Thinking About It At All!

Is Not The Core Of Nature In The Heart Of Man?

They Teach In Academies Far Too Many Things, And Far Too Much That Is Useless.

One Can Be Instructed In Society, One Is Inspired Only In Solitude.

Every Need Whose True Satisfaction Is Denied Leads By Necessity To Faith.

The Man With Insight Enough To Admit His Limitations Comes Nearest To Perfection.

No Two Men See The World Exactly Alike, And Different Temperaments Will Apply In Different Ways A Principle That They Both Acknowledge.

Divide And Command, A Wise Maxim; Unite And Guide, A Better.

You Don't Have To Travel Around The World To Understand That The Sky Is Blue Everywhere

It Is One Of Heaven's Best Gifts To Hold Such A Dear Creature In One's Arms.

Who Is The Happiest Man? He Who Is Alive To The Merit Of Others, And Can Rejoice In Their Enjoyment As If It Were His Own.

I Hate All Bungling As I Do Sin, But Particularly Bungling In Politics, Which Leads To The Misery And Ruin Of Many Thousands And Millions Of People.

Every Man Bears Something Within Him That, If It Were Publicly Announced, Would Excite Feelings Of Aversion.

Marriage Is The Beginning And Pinnacle Of Civilization.

If I Say To The Moment: 'stay Now! You Are So Beautiful'!

In Art It's Not The Thinking That Does The Job, But Making.

How Fair Doth Nature Appear Again! How Bright The Sunbeams! How Smiles The Plain! The Flow'rs Are Bursting From Ev'ry Bough, And Thousand Voices Each Bush Yields Now. And Joy And Gladness Fill Ev'ry Breast! Oh Earth!-oh Sunlight! Oh Rapture Blest! Oh Love! Oh Loved One!

There Is No Patriotic Art And No Patriotic Science.

Life Is Too Short To Drink Bad Wine.

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Everything In The World May Be Endured Except Continual Prosperity.

I Am The Spirit That Denies.

The Connoisseur Of Art Must Be Able To Appreciate What Is Simply Beautiful, But The Common Run Of People Is Satisfied With Ornament.

The Decline Of Literature Indicates The Decline Of A Nation.

The Man Who Occupies The First Place Seldom Plays The Principal Part.

The Highest Happiness Of Man ... Is To Have Probed What Is Knowable And Quietly To Revere What Is Unknowable.

Words Are Mere Sound And Smoke, Dimming The Heavenly Light.

Do Not Hurry; Do Not Rest.

If You've Never Eaten While Crying You Don T Know What Life Tastes Like.

As For Solitude, I Cannot Understand How Certain People Seek To Lay Claim To Intellectual Stature, Nobility Of Soul And Strength Of Character, Yet Have Not The Slightest Feeling For Seclusion; For Solitude, I Maintain, When Joined With A Quiet Contemplation Of Nature, A Serene And Conscious Faith In Creation And The Creator, And A Few Vexations From Outside Is The Only School For A Mind Of Lofty Endowment.

I Do Not Know Myself, And God Forbid That I Should.

The Intelligent Man Finds Almost Everything Ridiculous, The Sensible Man Hardly Anything.

How Many Years Must A Man Do Nothing, Before He Can At All Know What Is To Be Done And How To Do It!

Mastery Is Proven Only In Limitation, And Law Alone Can Give Us Freedom.

The World Is So Full Of Simpletons And Madmen, That One Need Not Seek Them In A Madhouse.

Nine Requisites For Contented Living: Health Enough To Make Work A Pleasure. Wealth Enough To Support Your Needs. Strength To Battle With Difficulties And Overcome Them. Grace Enough To Confess Your Sins And Forsake Them. Patience Enough To Toil Until Some Good Is Accomplished. Charity Enough To See Some Good In Your Neighbor. Love Enough To Move You To Be Useful And Helpful To Others. Faith Enough To Make Real The Things Of God. Hope Enough To Remove All Anxious Fears Concerning The Future.

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

Doubt Can Only Be Removed By Action.

The Rose Is Wont With Pride To Swell, And Ever Seeks To Rise.

A Life Without Love, Without The Presence Of The Beloved, Is Nothing But A Mere Magic-lantern Show. We Draw Out Slide After Slide, Swiftly Tiring Of Each, And Pushing It Back To Make Haste For The Next.

To The Person With A Firm Purpose All Men And Things Are Servants.

Why Look For Conspiracy When Stupidity Can Explain So Much

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We See Only What We Know.

The Bed Of Flowers Loosens Amain, The Beauteous Snowdrops Droop O'er The Plain. The Crocus Opens Its Glowing Bud, Like Emeralds Others, Others, Like Blood. With Saucy Gesture Primroses Flare, And Roguish Violets, Hidden With Care; And Whatsoever There Stirs And Strives, The Spring's Contented, If Works And Thrives.

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Of The Book Of Books Most Wondrous Is The Tender Book Of Love.

Superstition Is The Poetry Of Life. It Is Inherent In Man's Nature; And When We Think It Is Wholly Eradicated, It Takes Refuge In The Strangest Holes And Corners, Whence It Peeps Out All At Once, As Soon As It Can Do It With Safety.

Sometimes I Don't Understand How Another Can Love Her, Is Allowed To Love Her, Since I Love Her So Completely Myself, So Intensely, So Fully, Grasp Nothing, Know Nothing, Have Nothing But Her!

No One Should Be Rich Except Those Who Understand It.

Unlike Grown Ups, Children Have Little Need To Deceive Themselves.

What You Can Do, Or Think You Can, Begin It.

Decision Making

What We Agree With Leaves Us Inactive, But Contradiction Makes Us Productive.

I Don't Know A Greater Advantage, Than To Appreciate The Worth Of An Enemy.

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.

There Are Few Who Have At Once Thought And Capacity For Action. Thought Expands, But Lames; Action Animates, But Narrows.

Classicism Is Health, Romanticisim Is Sickness.

Wer Fremde Sprachen Nicht Kennt, Weiss Nichts Von Seiner Eigenen.he Who Is Ignorant Of Foreign Languages, Knows Not His Own.

Foreign Language

Die Mathematiker Sind Eine Art Franzosen. Spricht Man Zu Ihnen, So übersetzen Sie Alles In Ihre Eigene Sprache, Und So Wird Es Alsobald Etwas Ganz Anderes. Mathematicians Are A Kind Of Frenchmen. Whenever You Say Anything Or Talk To Them, They Translate It Into Their Own Language, And Right Away It Is Something Completely Different.

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Giving Is The Business Of The Rich.

Whoever Strenuously Endeavors, Him We Can Rescue.

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All Our Knowledge Is Symbolic.

The Present Moment Is A Powerful Goddess.

The Best Government Is That Which Teaches Us To Govern Ourselves.

I Can Promise To Be Upright, But Not To Be Without Bias. [ger., Aufrichtig Zu Sein Kann Ich Versprechen; Unparteiisch Zu Sein Aber Nicht.]

Hypotheses Are Only The Pieces Of Scaffolding Which Are Erected Round A Building During The Course Of Construction, And Which Are Taken Away As Soon As The Edifice Is Completed.

I Am The Spirit That Negates. And Rightly So, For All That Comes To Be Deserves To Perish Wretchedly; 'twere Better Nothing Would Begin. Thus Everything That That Your Terms, Sin, Destruction, Evil Represent— That Is My Proper Element.

There Is Nothing More Fearful Than Imagination Without Taste. [ger., Es Ist Nichts Furchterlicher Als Einbildungskraft Ohne Geschmack.]

Our Modern Wars Make Many Unhappy While They Last And None Happy When They Are Over.

The Century Is Advanced, But Every Individual Begins Afresh.

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Men Are Much More Apt To Agree In What They Do Than In What They Think.

I Could Never Have Known So Well How Paltry Men Are, And How Little They Care For Really High Aims, If I Had Not Tested Them By My Scientific Researches. Thus I Saw That Most Men Only Care For Science So Far As They Get A Living By It, And That They Worship Even Error When It Affords Them A Subsistence.

Why Go Further And Further, Look, Happiness Is Right Here. Learn How To Grab Hold Of Luck, For Luck Is Always There.

Dispel Not, The Happy Delusions Of Children.

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What Matters In Art Is Not Thinking But Making.

One Says A Lot In Vain, Refusing; The Other Mainly Hears The "no."

Passions Are Vices Or Virtues To Their Highest Powers.

Every Man Must Form Himself As A Particular Being, Seeking, However, To Attain That General Idea Of Which All Mankind Are Constituents.

Every Solution Of A Problem Is A New Problem.

Hypotheses Are The Scaffolds Which Are Erected In Front Of A Building And Removedd When The Building Is Completed. They Are Indispensable To The Worker; But The Worker Must Not Mistake The Scaffolding For The Building.

Since Time Is Not A Person We Can Overtake When He Is Gone, Let Us Honor Him With Mirth And Cheerfulness Of Heart While He Is Passing.

Good Children's Literature Appeals Not Only To The Child In The Adult, But To The Adult In The Child.

There Is Nothing Worse Than Aggressive Stupidity.

The Happy Do Not Believe In Miracles.

Believe In Miracles

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.

He Who Does Not Think Much Of Himself Is Much More Esteemed Than He Imagines.

Man Can Find No Better Retreat From The World Than Art, And Man Can Find No Stronger Link With The World Than Art.

Go To The Place Where The Thing You Wish To Know Is Native; Your Best Teacher Is There. Where The Thing You Wish To Know Is So Dominant That You Must Breathe Its Very Atmosphere, There Teaching Is Moat Thorough, And Learning Is Most Easy. You Acquire A Language Most Readily In The Country Where It Is Spoken; You Study Mineralogy Boat Among Miners; And So With Everything Else.

Napoleon For The Sake Of A Good Name Broke In Pieces Half The World.

To Tremble Before Anticipated Evils Is To Bemoan What Thou Hast Never Lost.

Could We Perfect Human Nature, We Might Also Expect A Perfect State Of Things.

He Who Moves Not Forward, Goes Backward.

The True, Prescriptive Artist Strives After Artistic Truth; The Lawless Artist, Following Blind Instinct, After An Appearance Of Naturalness. The One Leads To The Highest Peaks Of Art, The Other To Its Lowest Depths.

Paternity Is Based Anyhow Only Upon Conviction: I Am Convinced, Therefore, I Am The Father.

For Just When Ideas Fail, A Word Comes In To Save The Situation.

I Respect The Man Who Knows Distinctly What He Wants.

If It Is The Greatest Truth That You Seek, The Plants Can Direct You.

Nature Does Not Suffer Her Veil To Be Taken From Her, And What She Does Not Choose To Reveal To The Spirit, Thou Wilt Not Wrest From Her By Levers And Screws.

Wishes Are Premonitions Of Abilities.

It Is Better To Do The Smallest Thing In The World Than To Hold Half An Hour To Be Too Small A Thing.

When You Are In Conflict With Someone, There Is One Factor That Can Make The Difference Between Damaging Your Relationship And Deepening It. That Factor Is Attitude. We Don't Get To Know People When They Come To Us; We Must Go To Them To Find Out What They Are Like.

The Destiny Of Any Nation At Any Given Time Depends On The Opinion Of Its Young People, Those Under Twenty-five.

There Are But Two Roads That Lead To An Important Goal And To The Doing Of Great Things: Strength And Perseverance. Strength Is The Lot Of But A Few Privileged Men; But Austere Perseverance, Harsh And Continuous, May Be Employed By The Smallest Of Us And Rarely Fails Of Its Purpose, For Its Silent Power Grows Irresistibly Greater With Time.

No Matter What One Says, You Can Recognize Only Those Matters That Are Equal To You. Only Rulers Who Possess Extraordinary Abilities Will Recognize And Esteem Properly Extraordinary Abilities In Their Subjects And Servants.

The Sum Which Two Married People Owe To One Another Defies Calculation. It Is An Infinite Debt, Which Can Only Be Discharged Through All Eternity.

The Errors Of The Observer Come From The Qualities Of The Human Mind.

Writing History Is A Method Of Getting Rid Of The Past.

Every Decided Colour Does A Certain Violence To The Eye, And Forces The Organ To Opposition.

Live Dangerously And You Live Right.

Unrest And Uncertainty Are Our Lot.

Nature Is, After All, The Only Book That Offers Important Content On Every Page.

Taste Is Only To Be Educated By Contemplation, Not Of The Tolerably Good But Of The Truly Excellent.

Happy The Man Who Early Learns The Wide Chasm That Lies Between His Wishes And His Powers.

Where The Light Is Brightest, The Shadows Are Deepest.

Difficulties Increase The Nearer We Get To The Goal.

Oblivion Is Full Of People Who Allow The Opinions Of Others To Overrule Their Belief In Themselves.

The Further One Advances In Experience, The Closer One Comes To The Unfathomable; The More One Learns To Utilize Experience, The More One Recognizes That The Unfathomable Is Of No Practical Value.

Higher Yet And Higher Out Of Clouds And Night, Nearer Yet And Nearer Rising To The Light - Light, Serene And Holy Where My Soul May Rest, Purified And Lowly, Sanctified And Blest.

Still This Planet's Soil For Noble Deeds Grants Scope Abounding.

Human Life-everybody Lives It, But Only To A Few Is It Known.

Judge A Man's Character By What He Finds Ridiculous.

After All, Poets Shouldn't Be Their Own Interpreters And Shouldn't Carefully Dissect Their Poems Into Everyday Prose; That Would Mean The End Of Being Poets. Poets Send Their Creations Into The World, It Is Up To The Reader, The Aesthetician, And The Critic To Determine What They Wanted To Say With Their Creations.

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?

Whoever Would Do Good In The World, Ought Not To Deal In Censure. We Ought Not To Destroy, But Rather Construct.

For A Strolling Damsel A Doubtful Reputation Bears. [ger., Denn Ein Wanderndes Madchen Ist Immer Von Schwankendem Rufe.]

The Right Man Is The One Who Seizes The Moment.

If You Modestly Enjoy Your Fame You Are Not Unworthy To Rank With The Holy.

The Greatest Joy Of A Thinking Man Is To Have Searched The Explored And To Quietly Revere The Unexplored.

When Nature Begins To Reveal Her Open Secret To A Man, He Feels An Irresistible Longing For Her Worthiest Interpreter, Art.

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.

Every Day I Observe More And More The Folly Of Judging Of Others By Ourselves; And I Have So Much Trouble With Myself, And My Own Heart Is In Such Constant Agitation, That I Am Well Content To Let Others Pursue Their Own Course, If They Only Allow Me The Same Privilege.

Normally, The Sciences Distance Themselves From Life And The Return To It Via A Detour.

We Are Our Own Devils; We Drive Ourselves Out Of Our Edens.

Mankind? That Is An Abstraction. There Have Always Been And Always Will Be Only Individuals.

We Must Always Change, Renew, Rejuvenate Ourselves; Otherwise, We Harden.

Let No One Be Ashamed To Say Yes Today If Yesterday He Said No. Or To Say No Today If Yesterday He Said Yes. For That Is Life. Never To Have Changed-what A Pitiable Thing Of Which To Boast!

It Is In Vain That A Man Of Sound Mind And Cool Temper Understands The Condition Of Such A Wretched Being... He Can No More Communicate His Own Wisdom To Him Than A Healthy Man Can Instil His Strength Into The Invalid By Whose Bedside He Is Seated.

The Public Wishes Itself To Be Managed Like A Woman; One Must Say Nothing To It Except What It Likes To Hear.

True Observers Of Nature, Although They May Think Differently, Will Still Agree That Everything That Is, Everything That Is Observable As A Phenomenon, Can Only Exhibit Itself In One Of Two Ways. It Is Either A Primal Polarity That Is Able To Unify, Or It Is A Primal Unity That Is Able To Divide. The Operation Of Nature Consists Of Splitting The United Or Uniting The Divided; This Is The Eternal Movement Of Systole And Diastole Of The Heartbeat, The Inhalation And Exhalation Of The World In Which We Live, Act, And Exist.

One Never Goes Further Than When They Do Not Know Where They Are Going.

Mastery Passes Often For Egotism.

Great Possessions And Great Want Of Them Are Both Strong Temptations.

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.

It Is Easier To Perceive Error Than To Find Truth, For The Former Lies On The Surface And Is Easily Seen, While The Latter Lies In The Depth, Where Few Are Willing To Search For It.

He Is Happy As Well As Great Who Needs Neither To Obey Nor To Command In Order To Be Something.

Normally, People Believe That, If They Hear Just Words, That These Words Must Lead To Some Thought.

The Sea Is Flowing Ever, The Land Retains It Never.

None Are More Hopelessly Enslaved Than Those Who Falsely Believe They Are Free.

Everyone Is Deceived In His Hopes, Cheated In His Expectations.

What Have The Germans Gained By Their Boasted Freedom Of The Press, Except The Liberty Of Abusing Each Other As They Like?

Freedom Of The Press

One Criticizes The English For Carrying Their Teapots Wherever They Go, Even Lugging Them Up Mount Etna. But Doesn't Every Nationhave Its Teapot, In Which, Even When Traveling, It Brews The Dried Bundles Of Herbs Brought From Home?

Human Life Runs Its Course In The Metamorphosis Between Receiving And Giving.

And I Like Those Authors Best Whose Scenes Describe My Own Situation In Life-- And The Friends Who Are About Me Whose Stories Touch Me With Interest, From Resembling My Own Homely Existence.

Situations In Life

Desire Is The Presentiment Of Our Inner Abilities, And The Forerunner Of Our Ultimate Accomplishments.

To Me The External Existence Of My Soul Is Proved From My Idea Of Activity. If I Work Incessantly Until My Death, Nature Will Give Me Another Form Of Existence When The Present Can No Longer Sustain My Spirit.

Let Him Who Believes In Immortality Enjoy His Happiness In Silence; He Has No Reason To Give Himself Airs About It.

Whatever Is The Lot Of Humankind I Want To Taste Within My Deepest Self. I Want To Seize The Highest And The Lowest, To Load Its Woe And Bliss Upon My Breast, And Thus Expand My Single Self Titanically And In The End Go Down With All The Rest.

True Art Can Only Spring From The Intimate Linking Of The Serious And The Playful.

In The Colored Reflection We Have Life.

Seldom In The Business And Transactions Of Ordinary Life, Do We Find The Sympathy We Want.

Ignorant Men Raise Questions That Wise Men Answered A Thousand Years Ago.

Experiments Are Mediators Between Nature And Idea.

He Loves Not Who Does Not See The Faults Of The Beloved As Virtues.

I Have, Alas! Philosophy, Medicine, Jurisprudence Too, And To My Cost Theology, With Ardent Labor, Studied Through. And Here I Stand, With All My Lore, Poor Fool, No Wiser Than Before.

The Person Of Analytic Or Critical Intellect Finds Something Ridiculous In Everything. The Person Of Synthetic Or Constructive Intellect, In Almost Nothing.

Self-love Exaggerates Our Faults As Well As Our Virtues.

Hope Enough To Remove All Anxious Fears Concerning The Future.

Everything Is Hard Before It Is Easy.

Thou Must (in Commanding And Winning, Or Serving And Losing, Suffering Or Triumphing) Be Either Anvil Or Hammer.

Faith Is Hidden Household Capital.

We Are Shaped And Fashioned By What We Love.- Henry Ward Beecher - I Never Knew How To Worship Until I Knew How To Love.

A True German Can't Stand The French, Yet Willingly He Drinks Their Wines.

Nothing Puts Me So Completely Out Of Patience As The Utterance Of A Wretched Commonplace When I Am Talking From My Inmost Heart.

The Really Unhappy Person Is The One Who Leaves Undone What They Can Do, And Starts Doing What They Don't Understand; No Wonder They Come To Grief.

The One Who Acts Is Always Without Conscience; Nobody Has A Conscience But The Contemplative Person.

I Am A Part Of The Part That At First Was All, Part Of The Darkness That Gave Birth To The Light, That Supercilious Light Which Now Disputes With Mother Night Her Ancient Rank And Space, And Yet Cannot Succeed; No Matter How It Struggles, It Sticks To Matter And Can't Get Free. Light Flows From Substance, Makes It Beautiful.

A Great Revolution Is Never The Fault Of The People, But Of The Government.

Beauty And Genius Must Be Kept Afar If One Would Avoid Becoming Their Slave.

Battle Not With Monsters, For Then You Become One.

I Am Proud Of My Heart Alone, It Is The Sole Source Of Everything, All Our Strenght, Happiness & Misery. All The Knowledge I Possess Everyone Else Can Acquire, But My Heart Is All My Own

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