All that is transitory is but a metaphor.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHEMagic is believing in yourself, if you can do that, you can make anything happen.
More Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes
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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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Daring ideas are like chessmen moved forward. They may be beaten, but they may start a winning game.
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We know accurately only when we know little; doubt grows with knowledge.
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The deed is everything; the fame is nothing.
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The world is so empty if one thinks only of mountains, rivers & cities; but to know someone who thinks & feels with us, & who, though distant, is close to us in spirit, this makes the earth for us an inhabited garden.
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Few people have the imagination for reality.
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We do not have to visit a madhouse to find disordered minds; our planet is the mental institution of the universe.
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We all of us live upon the past, and through the past we are destroyed.
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The intelligent man finds everything laughable, the sensible man hardly anything.
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Every day I observe more and more the folly of judging of others by ourselves; and I have so much trouble with myself, and my own heart is in such constant agitation, that I am well content to let others pursue their own course, if they only allow me the same privilege.
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Know thyself? If I knew myself, I’d run away.
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By seeking and blundering we learn.
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Nothing is more dangerous than solitude.
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Beauty is a manifestation of secret natural laws, which otherwise would have been hidden from us forever.
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How often do I lull my seething blood to rest, for you have never seen anything so unsteady, so uncertain, as this heart.
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