What I possess, seems far away to me, and what is gone becomes reality.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHEWhat you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals.
More Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes
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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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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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A man sees in the world what he carries in his heart.
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One can stand anything except a succession of ordinary days.
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We are never deceived; we deceive ourselves.
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We know accurately only when we know little; doubt grows with knowledge.
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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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A word spoken is a terrible thing when it suddenly utters what the heart has long allowed.
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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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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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Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Willing is not enough; we must do.
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Oblivion is full of people who allow the opinions of others to overrule their belief in themselves.
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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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The deed is everything; the fame is nothing.
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There is nothing more dreadful than imagination without taste.
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