Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Poet, Playwright, Novelist

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe was a German writer and statesman, known for his influential works like 'Faust' and his exploration of human emotion and nature.

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Born
August 28, 1749
Died
March 22, 1832
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"Is it life, I ask, is it even prudence, To bore thyself and bore the students?"

Education Students Prudence
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"What is predestination? Answer: God is more powerful and wiser than we are, therefore he deals with us according to his pleasure."

God Powerful Omnipotence
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"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."

Education Truth School
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"Words are good, but there is something better. The best cannot be explained by words. The spirit in which we act is the chief matter. Action can only be only understood and represented by the spirit."

Matter Spirit Action
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"The intelligent man finds almost everything ridiculous, the sensible man hardly anything."

Clever Drinking Men
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"Doubt grows with knowledge."

War Doubt Grows
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"Night is the other half of life, and the better half."

Night Half Other Half
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"Where the light is brightest, the shadows are deepest."

Light Illumination Shadow
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"Great thoughts and a pure heart, that is what we should ask from God."

Heart Literature Should
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"The world is so full of simpletons and madmen, that one need not seek them in a madhouse."

Stupidity Needs World
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"Flowers are the beautiful hieroglyphics of nature with which she indicates how much she loves us."

Beautiful Flower Garden
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"Beware of a man of one book."

Wise Book Men
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"The greater the knowledge, the greater the doubt."

Knowledge Doubt Greater
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"Life is the childhood of our immortality."

Life Godly Childhood
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"Be generous with kindly words, especially about those who are absent."

Generosity Giving Absence
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"Misunderstandings and neglect occasion more mischief in the world than malice and wickedness."

Wickedness World Neglect
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