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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"Errors belong to libraries; truth, to the human mind."

Errors Mind Library
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"All rights and laws are still transmitted, Like an eternal sickness to the race. [Ger., Es erben sich Gesetz and Rechte Wie eine ew'ge Krankheit fort.]"

Rights Race Law
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"Wouldst thou ever roam abroad? See, what is good lies by thy side. Only learn to catch happiness, for happiness is ever by you."

Happiness Lying Sides
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"What is the path? There is no path. On into the unknown."

Path
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"Art is a mediator of the unspeakable."

Art Art Is Mediators
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"This is what they all come to who exclusively harp on experience. They do not stop to consider that experience is only one half of experience."

Half Harps One Half
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"The absence of temptation is the absence of virtue."

Temptation Virtue Absence
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"We should know mankind better if we were not so anxious to resemble one another."

Should Anxious Mankind
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"We rather confess our moral errors, faults, and crimes than our ignorance."

Ignorance Errors Faults
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"Oh God, how do the world and heavens confine themselves, when our hearts tremble in their own barriers!"

Heart Heaven Religion
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"Time is my estate: to Time I'm heir."

Heirs Estates
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"Even the lowliest, provided he is whole, can be happy, and in his own . way, perfect."

Happiness Perfect Way
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"Life's objective is life itself."

Objectives
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"Let us live, while we are alive!"

Alive
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"Faith is hidden household capital."

Household
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"Architecture is crystallized music."

Architecture
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"Taste is only to be educated by contemplation, not of the tolerably good but of the truly excellent."

Taste Excellent Contemplation
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"As for what I have done as a poet, I take no pride in whatever. Excellent poets have lived at the same time with me, poets more excellent lived before me, and others will come after me. But that in my country I am the only person who knows the truth in the difficult science of colors-of that, I say, I am not a little proud, and here have a consciousness of superiority to many."

Country Pride Color
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"What is the universal? The single case. What is the particular? Millions of cases."

Cases Particular Universal
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