He is happiest, be he king or peasant, who finds peace in his home.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHEEvery situation–nay, every moment–is of infinite worth; for it is the representative of a whole eternity.
More Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes
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The human race is a monotonous affair. Most people spend the greatest part of their time working in order to live, and what little freedom remains so fills them with fear that they seek out any and every means to be rid of it.
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When scholars study a thing, they strive to kill it first, if it’s alive; then they have the parts and they’ve lost the whole, for the link that’s missing was the living soul.
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There is nothing more frightful than ignorance in action.
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One ought, every day at least, to hear a little song, read a good poem, see a fine picture, and, if it were possible, to speak a few reasonable words.
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The highest goal that man can achieve is amazement.
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In the colorful reflection we have what is life.
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I wait for the morning of my tears.
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He who cannot draw on three thousand years is living from hand to mouth.
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The limits of my language are the limits of my universe.
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Love does not dominate; it cultivates.
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Be above it! Make the world serve your purpose, but do not serve it!
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Do not give in too much to feelings. A overly sensitive heart is an unhappy possession on this shaky earth.
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We often feel that we lack something, and seem to see that very quality in someone else, promptly attributing all our own qualities to him too, and a kind of ideal contentment as well. And so the happy mortal is a model of complete perfection–which we have ourselves created.
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Everything transitory is but an image.
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By seeking and blundering we learn.
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