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“When you take a man as he is, you make him worse. When you take a man as he can be, you make him better.”

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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True works of art contain their own theory and give us the measurement according to which we should judge them.

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I never believed in trying to do anything. Whatever I set out to do I found I had already accomplished.

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All lyrical work must, as a whole, be perfectly intelligible, but in some particulars a little unintelligible.

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We know accurately only when we know little, with knowledge doubt increases.

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It is easier to perceive error than to find truth, for the former lies on the surface and is easily seen, while the latter…

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There is no patriotic art and no patriotic science.

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The connoisseur of art must be able to appreciate what is simply beautiful, but the common run of people is satisfied with ornament

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Nothing is worse than active ignorance.

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Let us not dream that reason can ever be popular. Passions, emotions, may be made popular; but reason remains ever the property of an…

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Our foibles are really what make us lovable.

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Instruction does much, but encouragement everything.

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Giving is the business of the rich.

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