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The important thing is not to...

The important thing is not to know more than all men, but to know more at each moment than any particular man.

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Waste not a day in vain digre...

Waste not a day in vain digression; with resolute, courageous trust seek every possible impression and make it firmly your posession you'll then work on because you must.

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Alas, that we should be so un...

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.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 2265 quotes

It is commonly the personal c...

It is commonly the personal character of a writer which gives him his public significance. It is not imparted by his genius. Napoleon said of Corneille, "Were he living I would make him a king;" but he did not read him. He read Racine, yet he said nothing of the kind of Racine.

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The true, prescriptive artist...

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.

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Most pioneers are at the merc...

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.

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Higher yet and higher out of ...

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.

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Art is a severe business; mos...

Art is a severe business; most serious when employed in grand and sacred objects. The artist stands higher than art, higher than the object. He uses art for his purposes, and deals with the object after his own fashion.

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I will say with Lorenzo de Me...

I will say with Lorenzo de Medici that those who do not hope for another life are always dead to this one.

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The mortal race is far too we...

The mortal race is far too weak not to grow dizzy on unwonted brights. [Ger., Das sterbliche Geschlecht ist viel zu schwach In ungewohnter Hohe nicht zu schwindeln.]

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The misfortune in the state i...

The misfortune in the state is, that nobody can enjoy life in peace, but that everybody must govern; and in art, that nobody will enjoy what has been produced, but that every one wants to reproduce on his own account.

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Talents are nurtured best in ...

Talents are nurtured best in solitude, But character on life's tempestuous seas!

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Light has called forth one or...

Light has called forth one organ to become its like, and thus the eye is formed by the light and for the light so that the inner light may emerge to meet the outer light.

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The soul-stirring image of de...

The soul-stirring image of death is no bugbear to the sage, and is looked on without despair by the pious. It teaches the former to live, and it strengthens the hopes of the latter in salvation in the midst of distress. Death is new life to both.

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I have often reaped what othe...

I have often reaped what others have sowed. My work is the work of a collective being that bears the name Goethe.

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The web of this world is wove...

The web of this world is woven of Necessity and Chance. Woe to him who has accustomed himself from his youth up to find something necessary in what is capricious, and who would ascribe something like reason to Chance and make a religion of surrendering to it.

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Even though the world as a wh...

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.

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Oh, happy he who still hopes ...

Oh, happy he who still hopes he can emerge from Error's boundless sea! - Faust.

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If all these devils really ex...

If all these devils really exist it proves there must be angels, too.

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God could cause us considerab...

God could cause us considerable embarrassment by revealing all the secrets of nature to us: we should not know what to do for sheer apathy and boredom.

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