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New Inventions Can And Will Be Made; However, Nothing New Can Be Thought Of That Concerns Moral Man. Everything Has Already Been Thought And Said Which At Best We Can Express In Different Forms And Give New Expressions To.

-Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

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New Inventions Can And

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

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New Inventions Can And Will Be Made; However, Nothing New Can Be Thought Of That Concerns Moral Man. Everything Has Already Been Thought And Said Which At Best We Can Express In Different Forms And Give New Expressions To.

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Passions Are Vices Or Virtues To Their Highest Powers.

Every Day We Should Hear At Least One Little Song, Read One Good Poem, See One Exquisite Picture, And, If Possible, Speak A Few Sensible Words.

If Thou Wouldst Hear What Seemly Is And Fit, Inquire Of Noble Woman; They Can Tell, Who In Life's Common Usage Hold Their Place By Graceful Deed And Aptly Chosen Word.

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.

The Important Thing In Life Is To Have A Great Aim, And The Determination To Attain It.

I Have Possessed That Heart, That Noble Soul, In Whose Presence I Seemed To Be More Than I Really Was, Because I Was All That I Could Be.

Every Man Has Enough Power Left To Carry Out That Of Which He Is Convinced.

People Are Always Talking About Originality, But What Do They Mean? As Soon As We Are Born, The World Begins To Work Upon Us, And This Goes On To The End.

To Measure Up To All That Is Demanded Of Him, A Man Must Overestimate His Capacities

Every Beginning Is Cheerful.

Truth Is A Torch But A Tremendous One. That Is Why We Hurry Past It, Shielding Our Eyes, Indeed, In Fear Of Getting Burned.

Manners Form The Great Charm Of Women.

If We Take People Only As They Are, Then We Make Them Worse; If We Treat Them As If They Were What They Should Be, Then We Bring Them To Where They Can Be Brought.

Superstition Belongs To The Essence Of Mankind And Takes Refuge, When One Thinks One Has Suppressed It Completely, In The Strangest Nooks And Crannies; Once It Is Safely Ensconced There, It Suddenly Reappears.

If You Wish A Wise Answer, You Must Put A Rational Question.

The Aim Of Living Is Life Itself.

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

One Alone Does Not Help, But Rather He Who Unites With Many At The Right Moment.

Tolerance Should Really Be Only A Temporary Attitude; It Must Lead To Recognition. To Tolerate Means To Offend.

No One As Ever Completed Their Apprenticeship.

Our Mistakes And Failures Are Always The First To Strike Us, And Outweigh In Our Imagination What We Have Accomplished And Attained.

If You Don't Feel It, You'll Never Achieve It.

Religion Is Not In Want Of Art; It Rests On Its Own Majesty.

The Ideal Of Beauty Is Simplicity And Tranquility.

Every Person Above The Ordinary Has A Certain Mission That They Are Called To Fulfill.

One Of The Most Striking Signs Of The Decay Of Art Is The Intermixing Of Different Genres.

One Can Stand Anything Except A Succession Of Ordinary Days

Whatever Nature Undertakes, She Can Only Accomplish It In A Sequence. She Never Makes A Leap.

People Will Allow Their Faults To Be Shown Them; They Will Let Themselves Be Punished For Them; They Will Patiently Endure Many Things Because Of Them; They Only Become Impatient When They Have To Lay Them Aside.

Are We Not Also Married To Conscience Which We Would Love To Get Rid Of Often Enough Since It Is More Bothersome Than A Man Or A Woman Ever Could Become?

The Way You See People Is The Way You Treat Them, And The Way You Treat Them Is What They Become.

Lay Hold Of Life With Both Hands, Whenever Thou Mayest Seize It, It Is Interesting.

We Are Not All Equal, Nor Can We Be So.

Thou Shalt Abstain, Renounce, Refrain.

Habit Is A Man's Sole Comfort. We Dislike Doing Without Even Unpleasant Things To Which We Have Become Accustomed.

Every Offense Is Avenged On Earth.

All Poetry Is Supposed To Be Instructive But In An Unnoticeable Manner; It Is Supposed To Make Us Aware Of What It Would Be Valuable To Instruct Ourselves In; We Must Deduce The Lesson On Our Own, Just As With Life.

Not The Maker Of Plans And Promises, But Rather The One Who Offers Faithful Service In Small Matters. This Is The Person Who Is Most Likely To Achieve What Is Good And Lasting.

By Seeking And Blundering We Learn.

All Intelligent Thoughts Have Already Been Thought; What Is Necessary Is Only To Try To Think Them Again.

The Trouble Is Small, The Fun Is Great. [ger., Die Muh'ist Klein, Der Spass Ist Gross.]

Miracle Is The Pet Child Of Faith.

Those Who Hope For No Other Life Are Dead Even For This.

Whoever Gives Himself Up To Solitude, Ah! He Is Soon Alone.

Out Of Moderation A Pure Happiness Springs.

It Is Sometimes Essential For A Husband And A Wife To Quarrel - They Get To Know Each Other Better.

We Are So Constituted That We Believe The Most Incredible Things; And, Once They Are Engraved Upon The Memory, Woe To Him Who Would Endeavor To Erase Them.

Master And Doctor Are My Titles; For Ten Years Now, Without Repose, I Held My Erudite Recitals And Led My Pupils By The Nose.

The Person Born With A Talent They Are Meant To Use Will Find Their Greatest Happiness In Using It.

The Philosophers Must Station Themselves In The Middle.

To Know Where A Thing Is We Must Have Found It.

Hope Is The Second Soul Of The Unhappy.

Who Strives Always To The Utmost, Him Can We Save.

The Important Thing Is Not To Know More Than All Men, But To Know More At Each Moment Than Any Particular Man.

I Have Learned Much From Disease Which Life Could Have Never Taught Me Anywhere Else.

We Love A Girl For Very Different Qualities Than Understanding. We Love Her For Her Beauty, Her Youth, Her Mirth, Her Confidingness, Her Character, With Its Faults, Caprices And God Knows What Other Inexpressible Charms; But We Do Not Love Her Understanding.

If Everyone Sweeps Before His Own Front Door, Then The Street Is Clean.

Sweet Moonlight, Shining Full And Clear, Why Do You Light My Torture Here? How Often Have You Seen Me Toil, Burning Last Drops Of Midnight Oil. On Books And Papers As I Read, My Friend, Your Mournful Light You Shed. If Only I Could Flee This Den And Walk The Mountain-tops Again, Through Moonlit Meadows Make My Way, In Mountain Caves With Spirits Play - Released From Learning's Musty Cell, Your Healing Dew Would Make Me Well!

To Live In A Great Idea Means To Treat The Impossible As Though It Were Possible. It Is Just The Same With A Strong Character; And When An Idea And A Character Meet, Things Arise Which Fill The World With Wonder For Thousands Of Years.

Who Is The Most Sensible Person? The One Who Finds What Is To Their Own Advantage In All That Happens To Them.

Difficulties Increase The Nearer We Get To The Goal.

I Wish The Stage Were As Narrow As The Wire Of A Tighrope Dancer So That No Incompetent Would Dare Step Upon It.

He Who Wishes To Exert A Useful Influence Must Be Careful To Insult Nothing. Let Him Not Be Troubled By What Seems Absurd, But Concentrate His Energies To The Creation Of What Is Good. He Must Not Demolish, But Build. He Must Raise Temples Where Mankind May Come And Partake Of The Purest Pleasure.

Error Is To Truth As Sleep Is To Waking. I Have Observed That One Turns, As If Refreshed, From Error Back To Truth.

Not Art And Science Only, But Patience Will Be Required For The Work.

Art And Science

We Are Our Own Aptest Deceiver.

Everyone Believes In His Youth That The World Really Began With Him, And That All Merely Exists For His Sake.

The Highest Problem Of Any Art Is To Cause By Appearance The Illusion Of A Higher Reality.

I Am Certain That I Have Been Here As I Am Now A Thousand Times Before, And I Hope To Return A Thousand Times.

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

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

Stupidity Is Without Anxiety.

The Mind Is Found Most Acute And Most Uneasy In The Morning. Uneasiness Is, Indeed, A Species Of Sagacity - A Passive Sagacity. Fools Are Never Uneasy.

Die Zeit Ist Selbst Ein Element. Time Is Itself An Element.

The Theater Has Often Been At Variance With The Pulpit; They Ought Not To Quarrel. How Much Is It To Be Wished That In Both The Celebration Of Nature And Of God Were Intrusted To None But Men Of Noble Minds.

Music Is Either Sacred Or Secular. The Sacred Agrees With Its Dignity, And Here Has Its Greatest Effect On Life, An Effect That Remains The Same Through All Ages And Epochs. Secular Music Should Be Cheerful Throughout.

A Talent Can Be Cultivated In Tranquility; A Character Only In The Rushing Stream Of Life.

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

Everything Great And Intelligent Is In The Minority

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

Noble Be Man, Helpful And Good! For That Alone Sets Him Apart From Every Other Creature On Earth.

It Is In The Half Fools And The Half Wise That The Greatest Danger Lies.

In Politics As On A Sickbed Men Toss From Side To Side In Hope Of Lying More Comfortably.

My Poor Head Is In Such A Whirl, My Mind Is All In Bits.

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

Decision Making

The Best Way To Understand A Painting Is By Drawing It.

The Day Is For Mistake And Error, Sequence Of Time For Success And Carrying Out. The One Who Anticipates Is Master Of The Day.

A Man Does Not Mind Being Blamed For His Faults, And Being Punished For Them, And He Patiently Suffers Much For Them; But He Becomes Impatient If He Is Required To Give Them Up.

What Man Does Not Know, Or Has Not Thought Of, Wanders In The Night Through The Labyrinth Of The Mind.

My Days Are As Happy As Those Reserved By God For His Elect; And Whatever Be My Fate Hereafter, I Can Never Say That I Have Not Tasted Joy— The Purest Joy Of Life.

A Great Artist... Must Be Shaken By The Naked Truths That Will Not Be Comforted. This Divine Discontent, This Disequilibrium, This State Of Inner Tension Is The Source Of Artistic Energy.

Truth Must Be Repeated Again And Again, Because Error Is Constantly Being Preached Round About.

Again And Again

I Let Everyone Follow His Own Bent, That I May Be Free To Follow Mine.

Would You Require A Wretched Being, Whose Life Is Slowly Wasting Under A Lingering Disease, To Despatch Himself At Once By The Stroke Of A Dagger? Does Not The Very Disorder Which Consumes His Strength Deprive Him Of The Courage To Effect His Deliverance?

Generally Speaking, An Author's Style Is A Faithful Copy Of His Mind. If You Would Write A Lucid Style, Let There First Be Light In Your Own Mind; And If You Would Write A Grand Style, You Ought To Have A Grand Character.

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

Why Should We Not Recognize In The Lightning, The Thunder, And The Storm Wind, The Approach Of An Overwhelming Power, And In The Scent Of Flowers And The Gently Rustling Zephyr The Presence Of A Being Full Of Love?

Fresh Activity Is The Only Means Of Overcoming Adversity.

And Here, Poor Fool, With All My Lore I Stand No Wiser Than Before.

We Are Shaped And Fashioned By What We Love

If Man Thinks About His Physical Or Moral State He Usually Discovers That He Is Ill.

One Never Goes So Far As When One Doesn't Know Where One Is Going.

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.

The Greater The Knowledge, The Greater The Doubt.

Unrest And Uncertainty Are Our Lot.

Humor Is One Of The Elements Of Genius--admirable As An Adjunct; But As Soon As It Becomes Dominant, Only A Surrogate For Genius.

A Correct Answer Is Like An Affectionate Kiss.

Slap In The Face

Hatred Is Something Peculiar. You Will Always Find It Strongest And Most Violent Where There Is The Lowest Degree Of Culture.

To Quit Smoking, You Must First Want To Quit, But Then You Must Also Do The Quitting

Reasonable Men Are The Best Dictionaries Of Conversation.

Yes! To This Thought I Hold With Firm Persistence; The Last Result Of Wisdom Stamps It True; He Only Earns His Freedom And Existence Who Daily Conquers Them Anew.

Our Friends Show Us What We Can Do; Our Enemies Teach Us What We Must Do.

Dispel Not, The Happy Delusions Of Children.

The Spirit From Which We Act Is The Principal Matter.

A Mathematician Is Only Perfect Insofar As He Is A Perfect Man, Sensitive To The Beauty Of Truth.

A Person Hears Only What They Understand.

He Who Is Plenteously Provided For From Within Needs But Little From Without.

Inspirational Life

For To Give Is The Business Of The Rich. [lat., Denn Geben Ist Sache Des Reichen.]

It Is So Hard That One Cannot Really Have Confidence In Doctors And Yet Cannot Do Without Them.

Have Confidence

The Art Of Governing Is A Great Metier, Requiring The Whole Man, And It Is Therefore Not Well For A Ruler To Have Too Strong Tendencies For Other Affairs.

On Every Mountain Height Is Rest.

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 World Of Empirical Morality Consists For The Most Part Of Nothing But Ill Will And Envy.

Time Does Not Relinquish Its Rights, Either Over Human Beings Or Over Mountains.

Few Rash Of Any Modern Nation Have A Proper Sense Of An Aesthetical Whole; They Praise And Blame By Parts; They Are Charmed By Passages. And Who Has Greater Reason To Rejoice In This Than Actors, Since The Stage Is Ever But A Patched And Piecemeal Matter?

Who Can Think Wise Or Stupid Things At All That Were Not Thought Already In The Past.

Money Lost, Something Lost. Honor Lost, Much Lost. Courage Lost, Everything Lost-better You Were Never Born

Lost Everything

Many Young Painters Would Never Have Taken Their Pencils In Hand If They Could Have Felt, Known, And Understood, Early Enough, What Really Produced A Master Like Raphael.

Nothing Is Worth More Than This Day. You Cannot Relive Yesterday. Tomorrow Is Still Beyond Your Reach.

Wood Burns Because It Has The Proper Stuff For That Purpose In It; And A Man Becomes Renowned Because He Has The Necessary Stuff In Him. Renown Is Not To Be Sought, And All Pursuit Of It Is Vain. A Person May, Indeed, By Skillful Conduct And Various Artificial Means, Make A Sort Of Name For Himself; But If The Inner Jewel Is Wanting, All Is Vanity, And Will Not Last A Day.

Character Is Constructed Amidst The Tempests Of The World

Treat People As If They Were What They Ought To Be And You Help Them To Become What They Are Capable Of Being.

Individuality Of Expression Is The Beginning And End Of All Art.

Oh How Sweet It Is To Hear One's Own Convictions From Another's Lips.

The Style Of An Author Is A Faithful Copy Of His Mind.

Look At A Man The Way He Is And He Only Becomes Worse, But Look At Him As If He Were What He Could Be, Then He Becomes What He Should Be.

What Is My Life If I Am No Longer Useful To Others.

From Desire I Plunge To Its Fulfilment, Where I Long Once More For Desire.

To Make An Epoch In The World, Two Conditions Are Manifestly Essential-a Good Head And A Great Inheritance.

Necessity Is Cruel, But It Is The Only Test Of Inward Strength. Every Fool May Live According To His Own Likings.

The Human Race Is A Monotonous Affair. Most People Spend The Greatest Part Of Their Time Working In Order To Live, And What Little Freedom Remains So Fills Them With Fear That They Seek Out Any And Every Means To Be Rid Of It.

The Day Of Fortune Is Like A Harvest Day, We Must Be Busy When The Corn Is Ripe. [ger., Ein Tag Der Gunst Ist Wie Ein Tag Der Ernte, Man Muss Geschaftig Sein Sobald Sie Reift.]

He Who Does Not Expect A Million Readers Should Not Write A Line.

When Two People Are Really Happy About One Another One Can Generally Assume They Are Mistaken.

Only By Joy And Sorrow Does A Person Know Anything About Themselves And Their Destiny. They Learn What To Do And What To Avoid.

A Man Is Not Little When He Finds It Difficult To Cope With Circumstances, But When Circumstances Overmaster Him.

Artists Have A Double Relationship Towards Nature: They Are Her Master And Her Slave At The Same Time. They Are Her Slave In So Far As They Must Work With Means Of This World So As To Be Understood; Her Master In So Far As They Subject These Means To Their Higher Goals And Make Them Subservient To Them.

The Affairs Of The World Are No More Than So Much Trickery, And A Man Who Toils For Money Or Honour Or Whatever Else In Deference To The Wishes Of Others, Rather Than Because His Own Desire Or Needs Lead Him To Do So, Will Always Be A Fool.

If A Good Person Does You Wrong, Act As Though You Had Not Noticed It. If We Practice And Eye For An Eye And A Tooth For A Tooth, Soon The Wholeworld Will Be Blind And Toothless.

The Solution Of Every Problem Is Another Problem

A World Without Love Would Be No World.

We Will Burn That Bridge When We Come To It.

Whatever You Cannot Understand, You Cannot Possess.

Understanding And Love

To Venture An Opinion Is Like Moving A Piece At Chess: It May Be Taken, But It Forms The Beginning Of A Game That Is Won.

Literature Is A Fragment Of A Fragment. Of All That Ever Happened, Or Has Been Said, But A Fraction Has Been Written; And Of This But Little Is Extant.

To Appear At Church Every Sunday; To Look Down Upon, And Let Himself Be Looked At For An Hour By The Congregation, Is The Best Means Of Becoming Popular Which Can Be Recommended To A Young Sovereign.

Great Necessity Elevates Man, Petty Necessity Casts Him Down

Must It Ever Be Thus-that The Source Of Our Happiness Must Also Be The Fountain Of Our Misery? The Full And Ardent Sentiment Which Animated My Heart With The Love Of Nature, Overwhelming Me With A Torrent Of Delight, And Which Brought All Paradise Before Me, Has Now Become An Insupportable Torment, A Demon Which Perpetually Pursues And Harrasses Me.

Man Supposes That He Directs His Life And Governs His Actions, When His Existence Is Irretrievably Under The Control Of Destiny

How Many Years You Have To Keep On Doing, Until You Know What To Do And How To Do!

The Main Thing Is To Have A Soul That Loves The Truth And Harbours It Where He Finds It. And Another Thing: Truth Requires Constant Repetition, Because Error Is Being Preached About Us All The Time, And Not Only By Isolated Individuals But By The Masses. In The Newspapers And Encyclopedias, In Schools And Universities, Everywhere Error Rides High And Basks In The Consciousness Of Having The Majority On Its Side.

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

Toleration Ought In Reality To Be Merely A Transitory Mood. It Must Lead To Recognition. To Tolerate Is To Affront.

It Seems To Never Occur To Fools That Merit And Good Fortune Are Closely United.

A Plant Is Like A Self-willed Man, Out Of Whom We Can Obtain All Which We Desire, If We Will Only Treat Him His Own Way.

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.

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

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!

If You Are To Accomplish All That One Demands Of You, You Must Overestimate Your Own Worth.

You Don't Love If You Don't Take The Beloved's Faults For Virtues.

I Always Had An Aversion To Your Apostles Of Freedom; Each But Sought For Himself Freedom To Do What He Liked.

If Ever The Divine Appeared On Earth, It Was In The Person Of Christ.

Thus One Can Observe That Those Who Proclaim Piety As Their Goal And Purpose Usually Turn Into Hypocrites.

There Is Nothing Outside Of Us That Is Not At The Same Time In Us, And As The External World Has Its Colors The Eye, Too, Has Colors.

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

The Angles Even Draw Strength From Gazing On Its Glance, Though None Its Meaning Fathom May; The World's Unwither'd Countenance Is Bright As At Creation's Day.

There Is Nothing More Frightful Than An Active Ignorance. [ger., Es Ist Nichts Schrecklicher Als Eine Thatige Unwissenheit.]

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

Don't Feel Guilty If You Don't Immediately Love Your Stepchildren As You Do Your Own, Or As Much As You Think You Should. Everyoneneeds Time To Adjust To The New Family, Adults Included. There Is No Such Thing As An "instant Parent." Actually, No Concrete Object Lies Outside Of The Poetic Sphere As Long As The Poet Knows How To Use The Object Properly.

When Intelligent And Sensible People Despise Knowledge In Their Old Age, It Is Only Because They Have Asked Too Much Of It And Of Themselves.

Devote Each Day To The Object Then In Time And Every Evening Will Find Something Done.

Whatever We Think Out, Whatever We Take In Hand To Do, Should Be Perfectly And Finally Finished, That The World, If It Must Alter, Will Only Have To Spoil It; We Have Then Nothing To Do But Unite The Severed, To Recollect And Restore The Dismembered.

The Most Difficult Thing Is What Is Thought To Be The Simplest; To Really See The Things Which Are Before Your Eyes.

The Force Of A Language Does Not Consist Of Rejecting What Is Foreign But Of Swallowing It.

Everything Which Is Properly Business We Must Keep Carefully Separate From Life. Business Requires Earnestness And Method; Life Must Have A Freed Handling.

I Am Certain That I Have Been Here As I Am Now A Thousand Times Before, And I Hope To Return A Thousand Times... Man Is A Dialogue Between Nature And God. On Other Planets This Dialogue Will Doubtless Be Of A Higher And Profounder Character. What Is Lacking Is Self-knowledge. After That The Rest Will Follow.

He Who Is And Remains True To Himself And To Others Has The Most Attractive Quality Of The Greatest Talent.

The Thinking Person Has The Strange Characteristic To Like To Create A Fantasy In The Place Of The Unsolved Problem, A Fantasy That Stays With The Person Even When The Problem Has Been Solved And Truth Made Its Appearance.

Nothing Is More Fearful Than Imagination Without Taste.

The Best Slave Is The One Who Thinks He Is Free.

Such Is The Frailty Of Man That Even Where He Makes The Truest And Most Forcible Impression In The Memory, In The Heart Of His Beloved, There Also He Must Perish.

It Is Only Necessary To Grow Old To Become More Charitable And Even Indulgent. I See No Fault Committed By Others That I Have Not Committed Myself.

Beauty Is Everywhere A Welcome Guest.

Alas, That We Should Be So Unwilling To Listen To The Still And Holy Yearnings Of The Heart! A God Whispers Quite Softly In Our Breast, Softly Yet Audibly; Telling Us What We Ought To Seek And What To Shun.

The Experiences Show Us Just As We Are; They Make Us See Our Own Defects.

Should I Not Be Proud, When For Twenty Years I Have Had To Admit To Myself That The Great Newton And All The Mathematicians And Noble Calculators Along With Him Were Involved In A Decisive Error With Respect To The Doctrine Of Color, And That I Among Millions Was The Only One Who Knew What Was Right In This Great Subject Of Nature?

We Eagerly Get Hold Of A Law That Serves As A Weapon To Our Passions.

To Have A Positive Religion Is Not Necessary. To Be In Harmony With Yourself And The Universe Is What Counts, And This Is Possible Without Positive And Specific Formulation In Words.

Poetry Is The Universal Possession Of Mankind, Revealing Itself Everywhere, And At All Times, In Hundreds And Hundreds Of Men.

What Must The English And French Think Of The Language Of Our Philosophers When We Germans Do Not Understand It Ourselves?

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