None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHENothing shows a man’s character more than what he laughs at.
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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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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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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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Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing.
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Leap and the net will appear.
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We often feel that we lack something, and seem to see that very quality in someone else, promptly attributing all our own qualities to him too, and a kind of ideal contentment as well. And so the happy mortal is a model of complete perfection–which we have ourselves created.
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There is no past we can bring back by longing for it. There is only an eternal now that builds and creates out of the past something new and better.
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The human race is a monotonous affair. Most people spend the greatest part of their time working in order to live, and what little freedom remains so fills them with fear that they seek out any and every means to be rid of it.
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One never goes so far as when one doesn’t know where one is going.
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There is nothing worse than aggressive stupidity.
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The highest goal that man can achieve is amazement.
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To be pleased with one’s limits is a wretched state.
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One can stand anything except a succession of ordinary days.
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