There is nothing worse than aggressive stupidity.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHETo be pleased with one’s limits is a wretched state.
More Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes
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There is no past we can bring back by longing for it. There is only an eternal now that builds and creates out of the past something new and better.
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There are two things children should get from their parents: roots and wings.
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A man should hear a little music, read a little poetry, and see a fine picture every day of his life, in order that worldly cares may not obliterate the sense of the beautiful which God has implanted in the human soul.
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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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The deed is everything; the fame is nothing.
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I have possessed that heart, that noble soul, in whose presence I seemed to be more than I really was, because I was all that I could be.
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Know thyself? If I knew myself, I’d run away.
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What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals.
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The greatest evil that can befall man is that he should come to think ill of himself.
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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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Difficulties increase the nearer we get to the goal.
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One never goes so far as when one doesn’t know where one is going.
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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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I treat my heart like a sick child and gratify its every fancy.
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Oblivion is full of people who allow the opinions of others to overrule their belief in themselves.
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