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Without My Attempts In Natural Science, I Should Never Have Learned To Know Mankind Such As It Is. In Nothing Else Can We So Closely Approach Pure Contemplation And Thought, So Closely Observe The Errors Of The Senses And Of The Understanding, The Weak And Strong Points Of Character.

-Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

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Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

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Without My Attempts In Natural Science, I Should Never Have Learned To Know Mankind Such As It Is. In Nothing Else Can We So Closely Approach Pure Contemplation And Thought, So Closely Observe The Errors Of The Senses And Of The Understanding, The Weak And Strong Points Of Character.

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Nothing Is More Disgusting Than The Majority: Because It Consists Of A Few Powerful Predecessors, Of Rogues Who Adapt Themselves, Of Weak Who Assimilate Themselves, And The Masses Who Imitate Without Knowing At All What They Want.

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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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He Who Is Firm And Resolute In Will Molds The World To Himself.

Live Dangerously And You Live Right.

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

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

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

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If You Want To Make Life Easy, Make It Hard.

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Deny Yourself! You Must Deny Yourself! That Is The Song That Never Ends.

Whatever Liberates Our Spirit, Without Also Giving Us Mastery Over Ourselves, Is Destructive.

Faith Is A Homely, Private Capital; As There Are Public Savings-banks And Poor Funds, Out Of Which In Times Of Want We Can Relieve The Necessities Of Individuals, So Here The Faithful Take Their Coin In Peace.

And We Went Our Separate Ways Without Having Understood Each Other. As In This World Nobody Understands The Other Easily.

Pity On The Person Who Has Become Accustomed To Seeing In Necessity Something Arbitrary, Who Ascribes To The Arbitrary Some Sort Of Reason, And Even Claims That Following That Sort Of Reason Has Religious Value.

A Useless Life Is An Early Death.

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!

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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.

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

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.

A Leaf That Is Destined To Grow Large Is Full Of Grooves And Wrinkles At The Start. Now If One Has No Patience And Wants It Smooth Offhand Like A Willow Leaf, There Is Trouble Ahead.

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My Worthy Friend, Gray Are All Theories And Green Alone Life's Golden Tree.

Oral Delivery Aims At Persuasion And Making The Listener Believe They Are Converted. Few Persons Are Capable Of Being Convinced The Majority Allow Themselves To Be Persuaded.

National Literature Does Not Mean Much These Days; Now Is The Age Of World Literature, And Every One Must Contribute To Hasten Thearrival Of That Age.

What You Have Inherited From Your Forefathers, It Takes Work To Make It Your Own.

How Marvelous, Wide And Broad Is My Inheritance! Time Is My Property, My Estate Is Time.

Plunge Boldly Into The Thick Of Life, And Seize It Where You Will, It Is Always Interesting.

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.

People Who Think Honestly And Deeply Have A Hostile Attitude Towards The Public.

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

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

Everything Is Both Simpler Than We Can Imagine And More Entangled Than We Can Conceive.

Thank God When He Oppresses You, And Again When He Releases You.

The Older We Get The More We Must Limit Ourselves If We Wish To Be Active.

We Can Most Safely Achieve Truly Universal Tolerance When We Respect That Which Is Characteristic In The Individual And In Nations, Clinging, Though, To The Conviction That The Truly Meritorious Is Unique By Belonging To All Of Mankind.

If You Want Someone To Develop A Specific Trait, Treat Them As Though They Already Had It.

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

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All That Is Transitory Is But A Metaphor.

Neither A Work Of Nature Nor One Of Art We Get To Know When They Have Been Finished; We Must Surprise Them In The Process Of Beingcreated So As To Understand Them To Some Degree.

The Soul Of Man Is Like To Water; From Heaven It Cometh, To Heaven It Riseth And Then Returning To Earth, Forever Alternating.

Man... Knows Only When He Is Satisfied And When He Suffers, And Only His Sufferings And His Satisfactions Instruct Him Concerning Himself, Teach Him What To Seek And What To Avoid. For The Rest, Man Is A Confused Creature; He Knows Not Whence He Comes Or Whither He Goes, He Knows Little Of The World, And Above All, He Knows Little Of Himself.

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