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“Man will return to his origins. Goethe has finally become…” quote by Franz Grillparzer — Download Open image

“Man will return to his origins. Goethe has finally become as squiggly as the city of his fathers.”

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Genius differs from talent not by the amount of original thoughts, but by making the latter fertile and by positioning them properly, in other…

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Plato calls complacency the companion of loneliness.

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The noble woman is half a man, even a complete one. Only their imperfections make them women.

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It's the misfortune of German authors that not a single one of them dares to expose his true character. Everyone thinks that he has…

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Genius resembles a bell; in order to ring it must be suspended into pure air, and when a foreign body touches it, its joyful…

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Whoever considers morality the main objective of human existence, seems to me like a person who defines the purpose of a clock asnot going…

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Those who want to row on the ocean of human knowledge do not get far, and the storm drives those out of their course…

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The military and the clergy cause us much annoyance; the clergy and the military, they empty our wallets and rob our intelligence.

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I'd wish the government took honest people into consideration, it shows enough consideration for scoundrels.

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Much as I honor the wisdom of the princess--there is something more dashing about a man.

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Only by himself, with one acre and a house, will a dunce be a dunce. Once he manages to gain power, he'll turn into…

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The old harlot, German philosophy, has finally turnedinto a church lady.

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