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Causes Quotes by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
- The highest problem of any art is to cause by appearance the illusion of a higher reality.
- The thinker makes a great mistake when he asks after cause and effect. They both together make up the indivisible phenomenon.
- These auspicious aspects, which the astrologers subsequently interpreted for me, may have been the causes of my preservation.
- It is natural to man to regard himself as the final cause of creation.
- God could cause us considerable embarrassment by revealing all the secrets of nature to us: we should not know what to do for sheer apathy…
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