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The god of the Christians, as we have seen, is the god who makes promises only to break them; who sends them pestilence and disease in order to heal them; a god who demoralizes mankind in order to improve it. A god who created man 'after his own image', and still the origin of evil in man is not accredited to him.


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JOHANN VON GOETHE Who is sure of their own motives can in confidence advance or retreat.
JOHANN VON GOETHE If we cannot live so as to be happy, let us so live as to deserve happiness.
JOHANN G. FICHTE To be happy is not the purpose of our being rather it is to deserve happiness.
JOHANN G. FICHTE Whatever you can do or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power and magic in it. Begin it...
JOHANN VON GOETHE Dream no small dreams for they have no power to move the hearts of men.
JOHANN VON GOETHE The greatest difficulties lie where we are not looking for them.
JOHANN VON GOETHE Our work is the presentation of our capabilities.
JOHANN VON GOETHE People are so constituted that everybody would rather undertake what they see others do, whether the...
JOHANN VON GOETHE The person born with a talent they are meant to use will find their greatest happiness in using it.
JOHANN VON GOETHE The really unhappy person is the one who leaves undone what they can do, and starts doing what they ...
JOHANN VON GOETHE He is dead in this world who has no belief in another.
JOHANN VON GOETHE We are so constituted that we believe the most incredible things; and, once they are engraved upon t...
JOHANN VON GOETHE If you must tell me your opinions, tell me what you believe in. I have plenty of doubts of my own.
JOHANN VON GOETHE Beauty is everywhere a welcome guest.
JOHANN VON GOETHE Beauty is a primeval phenomenon, which itself never makes its appearance, but the reflection of whic...
JOHANN VON GOETHE Beauty is a manifestation of secret natural laws, which otherwise would have been hidden from us for...
JOHANN VON GOETHE Tear man out of his outward circumstances; and what he then is; that only is he.
JOHANN G. SEUME Courage and modesty are the most unequivocal of virtues, for they are of a kind that hypocrisy canno...
JOHANN VON GOETHE Wealth lost is something lost, honor lost is something lost: Courage lost all is lost.
JOHANN VON GOETHE Rest not. Life is sweeping by; go and dare before you die. Something mighty and sublime, leave behin...
JOHANN VON GOETHE The decline in literature indicates a decline in the nation. The two keep pace in their downward ten...
JOHANN VON GOETHE Don't dissipate your powers; strive to concentrate them. Genius thinks it can do whatever it sees ot...
JOHANN VON GOETHE No wise combatant underestimates their antagonist.
JOHANN VON GOETHE No one would talk much in society if they knew how often they misunderstood others.
JOHANN VON GOETHE Color contributes to beauty, but it is not beauty. Color should have a minor part in the considerati...
JOHANN JOACHIM WINCKELMANN There is no crime of which I do not deem myself capable.
JOHANN VON GOETHE To create something you must be something.
JOHANN VON GOETHE Conscience is the sentinel of virtue.
JOHANN KASPAR LAVATER The Christian religion, though scattered and abroad will in the end gather itself together at the fo...
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