Every reader, if he has a strong mind, reads himself into the book, and amalgamates his thoughts with those of the author.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHEBehaviour is a mirror in which every one displays his own image.
More Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes
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None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free.
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In the colorful reflection we have what is life.
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Is this the destiny of man? Is he only happy before he has acquired his reason or after he has lost it?
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I wait for the morning of my tears.
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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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We usually lost today because there has been a yesterday, and tomorrow is coming.
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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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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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To be pleased with one’s limits is a wretched state.
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Know thyself? If I knew myself, I’d run away.
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If I love you, what business is it of yours?
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To be loved for what one is, that is the greatest exception. The great majority love in others only what they lend him; their own selves, their version of him.
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On top of the world, or in the depths of despair.
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Doubt can only be removed by action.
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The intelligent man finds everything laughable, the sensible man hardly anything.
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