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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (28 August 1749 – 22 March 1832) was a German writer and politician. His body of work includes epic and lyric poetry written in a variety of metres and stylesprose and verse dramasmemoirsan autobiographyliterary and aesthetic criticismtreatises on botany, anatomy, and colourand four novels.

One must ask children and birds how cherries and strawberries taste.
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Music is either sacred or secular. The sacred agrees with its dignity, and here has its greatest effect on life, an effect that remains the same through all ages and epochs. Secular music should be cheerful throughout.
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In nature we never see anything isolated, but everything in connection with something else which is before it, beside it, under it and over it.
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On all the peaks lies peace.
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Piety is not a goal but a means to attain through the purest peace of mind the highest culture.
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Superstition is the poetry of life.
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The Christian religion, though scattered and abroad will in the end gather itself together at the foot of the cross.
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Only by joy and sorrow does a person know anything about themselves and their destiny. They learn what to do and what to avoid.
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Where is the man who has the strength to be true, and to show himself as he is?
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No one would talk much in society if they knew how often they misunderstood others.
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