I am contented, happy, and consequently a bad historian.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe


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Those who know nothing of foreign languages know nothing of their own.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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A person who does not know the history of the last 3,000 years wanders in the darkness of ignorance, unable to make sense of the reality around him

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe


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Music is liquid architecture; Architecture is frozen music.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe


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There is no day that one should skip
But one should seize, without distrust,
The possible with iron grip

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe


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There is no art in turning a goddess into a witch, a virgin into a whore, but the opposite operation, to give dignity to what has been scorned, to make the degraded disireable, that calls for art or for character

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe


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The greatest evil that can befall man is that he should come to think ill of himself.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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Man muss immer tun, was man nicht lassen kann.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe


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[...] car j'ai appris que tous les hommes extraordinaires qui ont fait quelque chose de grand, quelque chose qui semblait impossible, ont de tout temps été qualifiés d'ivres et d'insensés.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe


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I am part of the part that once was everything,
Part of the darkness which gave birth to light…

Mephistopheles, from Faust.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe


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