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“To be sure, we have inherited abilities, but our development we owe to thousands of influences coming from the world around us from which we appropriate what we can and what is suitable to us.”
—Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe (1749–1832)
“What’s it to you if I love you?”
—Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe (1749–1832)
“The miller believes that all the wheat grows so that his mill keeps running.”
—Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe (1749–1832)
“Stones are mute teachers; they silence the observer, and the most valuable lesson we learn from them we cannot communicate.”
—Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe (1749–1832)
“Superstition belongs to the essence of mankind and takes refuge, when one thinks one has suppressed it completely, in the strangest nooks and crannies; once it is safely ensconced there, it suddenly reappears.”
—Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe (1749–1832)