One never goes so far as when one doesn’t know where one is going.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHENone are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free.
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Night is the other half of life, and the better half.
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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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What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals.
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Two souls, alas, are housed within my breast, and each will wrestle for the mastery there.
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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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Love does not dominate; it cultivates.
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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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Beauty is a manifestation of secret natural laws, which otherwise would have been hidden from us forever.
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For a man to achieve all that is demanded of him, he must regard himself as greater than he is.
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Every reader, if he has a strong mind, reads himself into the book, and amalgamates his thoughts with those of the author.
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A person hears only what they understand.
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None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free.
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The limits of my language are the limits of my universe.
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Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing.
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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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