We are never deceived; we deceive ourselves.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHEBe above it! Make the world serve your purpose, but do not serve it!
More Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes
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Love does not dominate; it cultivates.
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Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing.
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I love those who yearn for the impossible.
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Misunderstandings and neglect occasion more mischief in the world than malice and wickedness.
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How often do I lull my seething blood to rest, for you have never seen anything so unsteady, so uncertain, as this heart.
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Know thyself? If I knew myself, I’d run away.
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One never goes so far as when one doesn’t know where one is going.
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Remember to live.
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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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The heights charm us, but the steps do not; with the mountain in our view we love to walk the plains.
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If you treat an individual as he is, he will remain how he is. But if you treat him as if he were what he ought to be and could be, he will become what he ought to be and could be.
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Every situation–nay, every moment–is of infinite worth; for it is the representative of a whole eternity.
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In the colorful reflection we have what is life.
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Nothing shows a man’s character more than what he laughs at.
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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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