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Learning
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Everywhere, we learn only from those whom we love.
-Johann von Goethe
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No one as ever completed their apprenticeship.
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Letters (writing)
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Letters are among the most significant memorial a person can leave behind them.
-Johann von Goethe
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Life
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What is important in life is life, and not the result of life.
-Johann von Goethe
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There are nine requisites for contented living: HEALTH enough to make work a pleasure; WEALTH enough to support your needs; STRENGTH enough to battle with difficulties and forsake them; GRACE enough to confess your sins and overcome them; PATIENCE enough to toil until some good is accomplished; CHARITY enough to see some good in your neighbor; LOVE enough to move you to be useful and helpful to others; FAITH enough to make real the things of God; HOPE enough to remove all anxious fears concerning the future.
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Plunge boldly into the thick of life, and seize it where you will, it is always interesting.
-Johann von Goethe
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Life is the childhood of our immortality.
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Nine requisites for contented living:
Health enough to make work a pleasure.
Wealth enough to support your needs.
Strength to battle with difficulties and overcome them.
Grace enough to confess your sins and forsake them.
Patience enough to toil until some good is accomplished.
Charity enough to see some good in your neighbor.
Love enough to move you to be useful and helpful to others.
Faith enough to make real the things of God.
Hope enough to remove all anxious fears concerning the future.
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Listening
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People should talk less and draw more. Personally, I would like to renounce speech altogether and, like organic nature, communicate everything I have to say visually.
-Johann von Goethe
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Love
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We are shaped and fashioned by what whom we love.
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If I love you, what business is it of yours?
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Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing; a confusion of the real with the ideal never goes unpunished.
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That is the true season of love; when we believe that we alone can love, that no one could ever have loved as much before, and that no one will ever love in the same way again.
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Management
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If each one does their duty as an individual and if each one works in their own proper vocation, it will be right with the whole.
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Manners
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There is a courtesy of the heart; it is allied to love. From its springs the purest courtesy in the outward behavior.
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Behavior is the mirror in which everyone shows their image
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Marriage
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When a wife has a good husband it is easily seen in her face.
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Mathematics
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Mathematicians are like Frenchman: whatever you say to them they translate Into their own language, and forthwith it is something entirely different.
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Mathematics has the completely false reputation of yielding infallible conclusions. Its infallibility is nothing but identity. Two times two is not four, but it is just two times two, and that is what we call four for short. But four is nothing new at all. And thus it goes on and on in its conclusions, except that in the higher formulas the identity fades out of sight.
page 1754
-Johann von Goethe, In J. R. Newman (ed.) The World of Mathematics, New York: Simon and Schuster
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Media
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The world is for thousands a freak show; the images flicker past and vanish; the impressions remain flat and unconnected in the soul. Thus they are easily led by the opinions of others, are content to let their impressions be shuffled and rearranged and evaluated differently.
-Johann von Goethe
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Men & Women
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Girls we love for what they are; men for what they promise to be.
-Johann von Goethe
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Mind, the
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The human mind will not be confined to any limits.
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Mistakes
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A clever man commits no minor blunders.
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The best fortune that can fall to a man is that which corrects his defects and makes up for his failings.
-Johann von Goethe
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Certain defects are necessary for the existence of individuality.
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Books by and about Johann von Goethe