What I possess, seems far away to me, and what is gone becomes reality.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHEOne can stand anything except a succession of ordinary days.
More Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes
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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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The intelligent man finds everything laughable, the sensible man hardly anything.
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We know accurately only when we know little; doubt grows with knowledge.
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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 do not have to visit a madhouse to find disordered minds; our planet is the mental institution of the universe.
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Treat people as if they were what they ought to be and you help them to become what they are capable of being.
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I treat my heart like a sick child and gratify its every fancy.
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I am not omniscient, but I know a lot.
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A man sees in the world what he carries in his heart.
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Leap and the net will appear.
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Two souls, alas, are housed within my breast, and each will wrestle for the mastery there.
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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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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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Who is the happiest of men? He who values the merits of others, and in their pleasure takes joy, even as though ’twere his own.
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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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