None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHEA really great talent finds its happiness in execution.
More Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes
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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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Two souls, alas, are housed within my breast, and each will wrestle for the mastery there.
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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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Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Willing is not enough; we must do.
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By seeking and blundering we learn.
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Few people have the imagination for reality.
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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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If you’ve never eaten while crying you don’t know what life tastes like.
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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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Remember to live.
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One can stand anything except a succession of ordinary days.
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One never goes so far as when one doesn’t know where one is going.
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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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Beauty is a manifestation of secret natural laws, which otherwise would have been hidden from us forever.
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Leap and the net will appear.
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