Daring ideas are like chessmen moved forward. They may be beaten, but they may start a winning game.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHERemember to live.
More Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes
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I laugh at my heart, and do its will.
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In the colorful reflection we have what is life.
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Be above it! Make the world serve your purpose, but do not serve it!
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All that is transitory is but a metaphor.
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We know accurately only when we know little; doubt grows with knowledge.
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One never goes so far as when one doesn’t know where one is going.
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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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What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals.
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Every day one should at least hear one little song, read one good poem, see one fine painting and – if at all possible – speak a few sensible words.
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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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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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A really great talent finds its happiness in execution.
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Everybody wants to be somebody, but nobody wants to grow.
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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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What I possess, seems far away to me, and what is gone becomes reality.
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