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The Longer I Live, The More It Grieves Me To See Man, Who Occupies His Supreme Place For The Very Purpose Of Imposing His Will Upon Nature, And Freeing Himself And His From An Outrageous Necessity--to See Him Taken Up With Some False Notion, And Doing Just The Opposite Of What He Wants To Do; And Then, Because The Whole Bent Of His Mind Is Spoilt, Bungling Miserably Over Everything.

-Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

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The Longer I Live,

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

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The Longer I Live, The More It Grieves Me To See Man, Who Occupies His Supreme Place For The Very Purpose Of Imposing His Will Upon Nature, And Freeing Himself And His From An Outrageous Necessity--to See Him Taken Up With Some False Notion, And Doing Just The Opposite Of What He Wants To Do; And Then, Because The Whole Bent Of His Mind Is Spoilt, Bungling Miserably Over Everything.

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Certain Flaws Are Necessary For The Whole. It Would Seem Strange If Old Friends Lacked Certain Quirks.

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Divide And Rule, A Sound Motto. Unite And Lead, A Better One.

The Traveler Was Active; He Went Strenuously In Search Of People, Of Adventure, Of Experience. The Tourist Is Passive.

Life Teaches Us To Be Less Harsh With Ourselves And With Others.

Architecture Is Crystallized Music.

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Whoever Aspiring, Struggles On, For Him There Is Salvation.

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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.

Even Dirt Glitters When The Sun Is Shining Upon It

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We Should Know Mankind Better If We Were Not So Anxious To Resemble One Another.

Keep Not Standing Fixed And Rooted. Briskly Venture, Briskly Roam.

Alas, I Have Studied Philosophy, The Law As Well As Medicine, And To My Sorrow, Theology; Studied Them Well With Ardent Zeal, Yet Here I Am, A Wretched Fool, No Wiser Than I Was Before.

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

There Is No Better Deliverance From The World Than Through Art, And A Man Can Form No Surer Bond With It.

A Really Great Talent Finds Its Happiness In Execution.

Nature Has Neither Kernel Nor Shell

Progress Has Not Followed A Straight Ascending Line, But A Spiral With Rhythms Of Progress And Retrogression, Of Evolution And Dissolution.

Everything In The World May Be Endured Except Continual Prosperity.

There Is Nothing By Which Men Display Their Character So Much As In What They Consider Ridiculous... Fools And Sensible Men Are Equally Innocuous. It Is In The Half Fools And The Half Wise That The Great Danger Lies.

The World Is For Thousands A Freak Show; The Images Flicker Past And Vanish; The Impressions Remain Flat And Unconnected In The Soul. Thus They Are Easily Led By The Opinions Of Others, Are Content To Let Their Impressions Be Shuffled And Rearranged And Evaluated Differently.

God Made Man Simple, But How He Changed And Got Complicated Is Hard To Say.

[w]hat Counts Is That One Perceives Excellence And Dares To Give It Expression, Which Sounds Little But Is In Fact A Great Deal.

Whatever You Can Do Or Dream, Begin It.

Man Believes Himself Always Greater Than He Is, And Is Esteemed Less Than He Is Worth.

Painting Predicates What Man Wants To See, And What Man Ought To See, Not What He Ordinarily Sees.

Beauty Is Everywhere A Welcome Guest.

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

But The Valid Issue Is The Extent To Which Man Knows How To Form And Master The Material At His Command.

Enthusiasm Is Of The Greatest Value, So Long As We Are Not Carried Away By It.

Nothing Is More Damaging To The Truth Than An Old Error.

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If One Mistreats Citizens Of Foreign Countries, One Infringes Upon One's Duty Toward One's Own Subjects; For Thus One Exposes Themto The Law Of Retribution.

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

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He Who Knows No Foreign Languages Knows Nothing Of His Own.

Love Of Truth Shows Itself In This, That A Man Knows How To Find And Value The Good In Everything.

There Are But Few Who Have Ideas And Are, At The Same Time, Capable Of Action. Ideas Enlarge But Stymie, Action Enlivens But Confines.

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

I Bid The Chords Sweet Music Make, And All Must Follow In My Wake.

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At Bottom, No Real Object Is Unpoetical, If The Poet Knows How To Use It Properly.

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Time Is My Estate: To Time I'm Heir.

Every Situation--nay, Every Moment--is Of Infinite Worth; For It Is The Representative Of A Whole Eternity.

It Is A Misfortune To Pass At Once From Observation To Conclusion, And To Regard Both As Of Equal Value; But It Befalls Many A Student.

The Flowers Are Full Of Honey, But Only The Bee Finds Out The Sweetness.

The Ideal Of Beauty Is Simplicity And Tranquility.

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

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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!

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Of All Peoples The Greeks Have Dreamt The Dream Of Life Best.

We All Of Us Live Upon The Past, And Through The Past We Are Destroyed.

The Mark Of Highest Originality Lies In The Ability To Develop A Familiar Idea So Fruitfully That It Would Seem No One Else Would Ever Have Discovered So Much To Be Hidden In It.

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Just Trust Yourself And You'll Learn The Art Of Living.

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The Deepest, The Only Theme Of Human History, Compared To Which All Others Are Of Subordinate Importance, Is The Conflict Of Skepticism With Faith.

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Three Things Are To Be Looked To In A Building: That It Stand On The Right Spot; That It Is Securely Founded; That It Be Successfully Executed.

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The Coward Only Threatens When He Is Safe.

The Artist Alone Sees Spirits. But After He Has Told Of Their Appearing To Him, Everybody Sees Them.

Be Generous With Kindly Words, Especially About Those Who Are Absent.

One Is Never Satisfied With A Portrait Of Persons Whom One Knows. That Is Why I Have Always Pitied Portraitists. One Demands So Seldom Of Others The Impossible, But Demands Just That Of The Portraitists.

I Do Not Speak Of What I Cannot Praise.

Tell Me With Whom You Associate, And I Will Tell You Who You Are.

Publishers Are All Cohorts Of The Devil; There Must Be A Special Hell For Them Somewhere.

Thou Art In The End What Thou Art. Put On Wigs With Millions Of Curls, Set Thy Foot Upon Ell-high Rocks. Thou Abidest Ever--what Thou Art.

Belief Is Not The Beginning Of Knowledge - It Is The End.

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

If All These Devils Really Exist It Proves There Must Be Angels, Too.

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

Certain Defects Are Necessary For The Existence Of Individuality.

Choose Well. Your Choice Is Brief, And Yet Endless.

Girls We Love For What They Are; Young Men For What They Promise To Be.

Most Man 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.

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The Realization Of The Self Is Only Possible If One Is Productive, If One Can Give Birth To One's Own Potentialities.

It Is Better To Be Doing The Most Insignificant Thing Than To Reckon Even A Half-hour Insignificant.

Insignificant Things

In The End We Are All Separate: Our Stories, No Matter How Similar, Come To A Fork And Diverge. We Are Drawn To Each Other Because Of Our Similarities, But It Is Our Differences We Must Learn To Respect.

Wisdom Is Found Only In Truth.

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

A State Of Affairs Which Leads To Daily Vexation Is Not The Right State.

While Man's Desires And Aspirations Stir He Cannot Choose But Err.

The Wealth That Cannot Be Administered Is A Burden.

Man Cannot Persist Long In A Conscious State, He Must Throw Himself Back Into The Unconscious, For His Root Lives There.

It Has Been Said That Figures Rule The World. Maybe. But I Am Sure That Figures Show Us Whether It Is Being Ruled Well Or Badly.

As Beauteous Is The World, And Many A Joy Floats Through Its Wide Dominion. But, Alas, When We Would Seize The Winged Good, It Flies.

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

Only The Soul That Loves Is Happy

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We Can Really Respect A Man Only If He Doesn't Always Look Out For Himself.

So Long As You Live And Work, You Will Be Misunderstood; To That You Must Resign Yourself Once And For All. Be Silent!

I Wait For The Morning Of My Tears

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

The Rabble Also Vent Their Rage In Words. [ger., Es Macht Das Volk Sich Auch Mit Worten Lust.]

If Your Treat An Individual... As If He Were What He Ought To Be And Could Be, He Will Become What He Ought To Be And Could Be.

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

Giving Is The Business Of The Rich.

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

Over All The Mountain Tops Is Peace. In All Treetops You Perceive Scarcely A Breath. The Little Birds In The Forest Are Silent. Wait Then; Soon, You Too, Will Have Peace.

A Resolution That Is Communicated Is No Longer Within Thy Power; Thy Attentions Become Now The Plaything Of Chance; He Who Would Have His Commands Certainly Carried Out Must Take Man By Surprise.

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.

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

Most Pioneers Are At The Mercy Of Doubt At The Beginning, Whether Of Their Worth, Of Their Theories, Or Of The Whole Enigmatic Field In Which They Labour.

Give Me The Benefit Of Your Convictions, If You Have Any; But Keep Your Doubts To Yourself, For I Have Enough Of My Own.

I Am Fully Convinced That The Soul Is Indestructible, And Its Activity Will Continue Through Eternity.

Old Age Is Never Honored Among Us, But Only Indulged, As Childhood Is; And Old Men Lose One Of The Most Precious Rights Of Man,--that Of Being Judged By Their Peers.

To The World You Might Be One Person, But To One Person, You Might Be The World. Kindness Is The Golden Chain By Which Our World Is Bound Together.

None Are So Hopelessly Enslaved, As Those Who Falsely Believe They Are Free. The Truth Has Been Kept From The Depth Of Their Minds By Masters Who Rule Them With Lies. They Feed Them On Falsehoods Till Wrong Looks Like Right In Their Eyes.

One Ought, Everyday, To Hear A Song, Read A Fine Poem, And, If Possible, To Speak A Few Reasonable Words.

The One Who Always Strives, That One Can Be Redeemed.

The Most Congenial Social Occasions Are Those Ruled By Cheerful Deference Of Each For All.

Hypotheses Are Lullabies For Teachers To Sing Their Students To Sleep.

Taste Is Only To Be Educated By Contemplation, Not Of The Tolerably Good But Of The Truly Excellent. I Therefore Show You Only The Best Works; And When You Are Grounded In These, You Will Have A Standard For The Rest, Which You Will Know How To Value, Without Overrating Them.

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

Nothing Will Change The Fact That I Cannot Produce The Least Thing Without Absolute Solitude.

Man Is Not Born To Solve The Problem Of The Universe, But To Find Out What He Has To Do; And To Restrain Himself Within The Limits Of His Comprehension.

Superstition Is Part Of The Poetry Of Life.

Legislators And Revolutionaries Who Promise Both Equality And Liberty Are Visionaries And Charlatans.

Yet Through Delivery Orators Succeed, I Feel That I Am Far Behind Indeed. [ger., Allein Der Vortrag Macht Des Redners Gluck, Ich Fuhl Es Wohl Noch Bin Ich Weit Zuruck.]

He Is Dead In This World Who Has No Belief In Another.

We Are Never Further From What We Wish Than When We Believe That We Have What We Wished For.

Stones Are Mute Teachers; They Silence The Observer, And The Most Valuable Lesson We Learn From Them We Cannot Communicate.

Hope Enough To Remove All Anxious Fears Concerning The Future.

Against Great Advantages In Another, There Are No Means Of Defending Ourselves Except Love.

Hatred Is A Heavy Burden. It Sinks The Heart Deep In The Breast, And Lies Like A Tombstone On All Joys.

The Child, Offered The Mother's Breast, Will Not In The Beginning Grab It; But Soon It Clings To It With Zest. And Thus At Wisdom's Copious Breasts You'll Drink Each Day With Greater Zest.

Were Not The Eye Made To Receive The Rays Of The Sun, It Could Not Behold The Sun; If The Peculiar Power Of God Lay Not In Us, How Could The Godlike Charm Us?

Tolerance Should, Strictly Speaking, Be Only A Passing Mood; It Ought To Lead To Acknowledgment And Appreciation. To Tolerate A Person Is To Affront Him.

It Is Always A Sign Of An Unproductive Time When It Concerns Itself With Petty And Technical Aspects [in Philology], And Likewiseit Is A Sign Of An Unproductive Person To Pursue Such Trifles.

The World Sees Only The Reflection Of Merit; Therefore When You Come To Know A Really Great Man Intimately, You May As Often Find Him Above As Below His Reputation.

These Auspicious Aspects, Which The Astrologers Subsequently Interpreted For Me, May Have Been The Causes Of My Preservation.

It Seems To Me That Every Phenomenon, Every Fact, Itself Is The Really Interesting Object. Whoever Explains It, Or Connects It With Other Events, Usually Only Amuses Himself Or Makes Sport Of Us, As, For Instance, The Naturalist Or Historian. But A Single Action Or Event Is Interesting, Not Because It Is Explainable, But Because It Is True.

The Clever Reader Who Is Capable Or Reading Between These Lines What Does Not Stand Written In Them But Is Nevertheless Implied Will Be Able To Form Some Conception.

Misunderstandings And Neglect Create More Confusion In This World Than Trickery And Malice. At Any Rate, The Last Two Are Certainly Much Less Frequent.

All Our Knowledge Is Symbolic.

If You Lay Duties Upon People And Give Them No Rights, You Must Pay Them Well.

Willing Is Not Enough, We Must Do.

It Makes No Good To Point The Failures Out Without Showing At The Same Time The Remedy To Address Them.

I Am Not Omniscient, But I Know A Lot.

What Do People Mean When They Talk About Unhappiness? It Is Not So Much Unhappiness As Impatience That From Time To Time Possesses Men, And Then They Choose To Call Themselves Miserable.

It Is A Great Pleasure To Transport One's-self Into The Spirit Of The Times; To See How A Wise Man Has Thought Before Us, And To What A Glorious Height We Have At Last Carried It.

What A Man Does Not Understand, He Does Not Possess.

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