We know accurately only when we know little; doubt grows with knowledge.
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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Beauty is a manifestation of secret natural laws, which otherwise would have been hidden from us forever.
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If any man wish to write in a clear style, let him be first clear in his thoughts; and if any would write in a noble style, let him first possess a noble soul.
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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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Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing.
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Behaviour is a mirror in which every one displays his own image.
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Few people have the imagination for reality.
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Two souls, alas, are housed within my breast, and each will wrestle for the mastery there.
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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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If I accept you as you are, I will make you worse; however, if I treat you as though you are what you are capable of becoming, I help you become that.
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On top of the world, or in the depths of despair.
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None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free.
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There are two things children should get from their parents: roots and wings.
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Everybody wants to be somebody, but nobody wants to grow.
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What is not started today is never finished tomorrow.
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