Daring ideas are like chessmen moved forward. They may be beaten, but they may start a winning game.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHEIf 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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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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The suffering may be moral or physical; and in my opinion it is just as absurd to call a man a coward who destroys himself, as to call a man a coward who dies of a malignant fever.
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Love does not dominate; it cultivates.
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Leap and the net will appear.
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The intelligent man finds everything laughable, the sensible man hardly anything.
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I am not omniscient, but I know a lot.
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To be pleased with one’s limits is a wretched state.
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To think is easy. To act is hard. But the hardest thing in the world is to act in accordance with your thinking.
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There is nothing more dreadful than imagination without taste.
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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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We are never deceived; we deceive ourselves.
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I have so much in me, and the feeling for her absorbs it all; I have so much, and without her it all comes to nothing.
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The rich want good wine, the poor, plenty of wine.
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He who cannot draw on three thousand years is living from hand to mouth.
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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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