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“The true, prescriptive artist strives after artistic truth; the lawless artist, following blind instinct, after an appearance of naturalness. The one leads to the highest peaks of art, the other to its lowest depths.”
—Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe (1749–1832)
“The most damaging prejudice consists of banning any kind of investigation of nature.”
—Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe (1749–1832)
“Which government is the best? The one that teaches us to govern ourselves.”
—Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe (1749–1832)
“Mankind? That is an abstraction. There have always been and always will be only individuals.”
—Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe (1749–1832)
“Every need whose true satisfaction is denied leads by necessity to faith.”
—Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe (1749–1832)
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