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Confronted by outstanding merit, there is no way
of saving one's ego except by love.
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Architecture is frozen music.
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Everything great and intelligent is in the
minority.
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One ought, everyday, to hear a song, read a
fine poem, and, if possible, to speak a few reasonable words.
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The first and last thing required of genius
is the love of truth.
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The phrases men are accustomed to repeat
incessantly, end by becoming convictions and ossify the organs of
intelligence.
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Know thyself? If I knew myself, I'd run away.
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Mysteries are not necessarily miracles.
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Because everyone uses language to talk,
everyone thinks he can talk about language.
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He who knows no foreign language knows nothing
of his own.
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This is the true measure of love,
When we believe that we alone can love,
That no one could ever have loved so before us,
And that no one will ever love in the same way after us.
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The effects of good music are not just
because it's new; on the contrary music strikes us more the more familiar
we are with it.
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Ignorant men raise questions that wise men
answered a thousand years ago.
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All truly wise thoughts have been thought
already thousands of times; but to make them truly ours, we must think them
over again honestly, till they take root in our personal experience.
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The thinker makes a great mistake when he
asks after cause and effect. They both together make up the indivisible
phenomena.
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If you start to think about your physical
or moral condition, you usually find that you are sick.
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(This is a test effort. The text is copyrighted, I took it from Biography.com. This
will not be the final version of the text I use.)
Poet, dramatist, and scientist, born in Frankfurt, Germany. He
studied law at Leipzig and Strasbourg, came under the influence of Herder, and became
interested in alchemy, anatomy, and the antiquities. He returned to Frankfurt as a
newspaper critic, and captured the spirit of German nationalism with his drama, Götz
von Berlichingen (1773), following this with his novel Die Leiden des jungen Werther
(1774, The Sorrows of Young Werther). In 1776 he accepted a post in the court of the
Duke of Weimar, where he studied a variety of scientific subjects. He wrote much
lyric poetry at this time, inspired by his relationships with a series of women,
culminating in a profound attachment to Charlotte von Stein. Visits to Italy (1786--8,
1790) contributed to a greater preoccupation with poetical form, seen in such plays as
Iphigenie auf Tauris (1789) and Torquato Tasso (1790). His love for classical Italy,
coupled with his passion for Christiane Vulpius, whom he married in 1806, was
expressed in the poems Römische Elegien (1795, Roman Elegies). In his later years he
wrote Wilhelm Meisters Lehrjahre (1796, Wilhelm Meister's Apprentice Years), continued
as Wilhelm Meisters Wanderjahre (1821--9, Wilhelm Meister's Journeyman Years). His
masterpiece is his version of Faust, on which he worked for most of his life, published
in two parts (1808, 1832).
