"Colors are the deeds/ and sufferings of light."
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"Everything transitory is but an image."
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"A word spoken is a terrible thing when it suddenly utters what the heart has long allowed."
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"two souls, alas, are housed within my breast, and each will wrestle for the mastery there."
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"The highest goal that man can achieve is amazement."
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"The sun had, in the meanwhile, sunk behind the Ettersberg. We felt in the wood the chill of the evening, and drove all the quicker to Wiemar, and to Goethe's house. Goethe urged me to go in with him for a while, and I did so. He was in an extremely engaging mood. He talked a great deal about his theory of colors, and of his obstinate opponents; remarking that he was sure that he had done something in this science."
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"Human life-everybody lives it, but only to a few is it known."
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"Then to the depths! - I could as well say height: It's all the same."
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"One must keep repeating the Truth."
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"Time does not relinquish its rights, either over human beings or over mountains."
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"The spectacle of Nature is always new, for she is always renewing the spectators. Life is her most exquisite invention; and death is her expert contrivance to get plenty of life."
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"If the world does improve on the whole, yet youth must always begin anew, and go through the stages of culture from the beginning."
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"Mathematics can remove no prejudices and soften no obduracy. It has no influence in sweetening the bitter strife of parties, and in the moral world generally its action is perfectly null."
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"Whether one show one's self a man of genius in science or compose a song, the only point is, whether the thought, the discovery, the deed, is living and can live on."
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"There is no permanence in doubt; it incites the mind to closer inquiry and experiment, from which, if rightly managed, certainty proceeds, and in this alone can man find thorough satisfaction."
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"Woe to him who would ascribe something like reason to Chance, and make a religion of surrendering to it."
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"The greatest piece of folly is that every man thinks himself compelled to hand down what people think they have known."
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"It is related of an Englishman that he hanged himself to avoid the daily task of dressing and undressing."
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"The artist may be well advised to keep his work to himself till it is completed, because no one can readily help him or advise him with it... but the scientist is wiser not to withhold a single finding or a single conjecture from publicity."
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"The history of science is science itself; the history of the individual, the individual."
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