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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"Life teaches us to be less harsh with ourselves and with others."

Life Harsh Teach
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"All perishable is but an allegory."

Allegory
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"The old lose one of the greatest privileges of man, for they are no longer judged by their contemporaries."

Men Privilege Loses
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"It is in self-limitation that a master first shows himself."

Self Firsts Favourite
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"Do the duty which lies nearest to thee."

Lying Thee Duty
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"You don't have to travel around the world to understand that the sky is blue everywhere"

Blue Sky World
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"There speaks the man of truly noble ways, Who will not listen to the words of praise. In modesty averse, and with deaf ears, He acts as though the others were his peers."

Men Peers Noble
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"Habit is the most imperious of all masters."

Habit Masters
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"If in the infinite you want to stride, Just walk in the finite to every side."

Want Sides Infinite
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"Self-knowledge comes from knowing other men."

Knowledge Men Self
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"I hate everything that merely instructs me without augmenting or directly invigorating my activity."

Education Hate Activity
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"It is said that no man is a hero to his valet. That is because a hero can be recognized only by a hero."

Hero Men Said
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"Some of our weaknesses are born in us, others are the result of education; it is a question which of the two gives us most trouble."

Two Giving Weakness
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"When translating one must proceed up to the intranslatable; only then one becomes aware of the foreign nation and the foreign tongue."

Tongue Language Translate
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"Whatever liberates our spirit, without also giving us mastery over ourselves, is destructive."

Freedom Giving Mastery
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"The beautiful is a phenomenon which is never apparent of itself, but is reflected in a thousand different works of the creator."

Beautiful Different Thousand
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"To be sure, we have inherited abilities, but our development we owe to thousands of influences coming from the world around us from which we appropriate what we can and what is suitable to us."

World Development Environment
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"Everything that we encounter leaves traces behind. Everything contributes imperceptibly to our education"

Inspirational Life Beautiful
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"Our wishes are presentiments of the abilities that lie in us, harbingers of what we will be able to accomplish."

Lying Wish Able
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