Be above it! Make the world serve your purpose, but do not serve it!
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHEDo not give in too much to feelings. A overly sensitive heart is an unhappy possession on this shaky earth.
More Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes
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To be loved for what one is, that is the greatest exception. The great majority love in others only what they lend him; their own selves, their version of him.
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In the colorful reflection we have what is life.
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For a man to achieve all that is demanded of him, he must regard himself as greater than he is.
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By seeking and blundering we learn.
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There is nothing worse than aggressive stupidity.
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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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The deed is everything; the fame is nothing.
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All that is transitory is but a metaphor.
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A man should hear a little music, read a little poetry, and see a fine picture every day of his life, in order that worldly cares may not obliterate the sense of the beautiful which God has implanted in the human soul.
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None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free.
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We know accurately only when we know little; doubt grows with knowledge.
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I love those who yearn for the impossible.
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On top of the world, or in the depths of despair.
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Beauty is a manifestation of secret natural laws, which otherwise would have been hidden from us forever.
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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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