Every reader, if he has a strong mind, reads himself into the book, and amalgamates his thoughts with those of the author.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHEA really great talent finds its happiness in execution.
More Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes
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Every day one should at least hear one little song, read one good poem, see one fine painting and – if at all possible – speak a few sensible words.
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There is nothing more dreadful than imagination without taste.
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He who cannot draw on three thousand years is living from hand to mouth.
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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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Beauty is a manifestation of secret natural laws, which otherwise would have been hidden from us forever.
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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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The rich want good wine, the poor, plenty of wine.
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If any man wish to write in a clear style, let him be first clear in his thoughts; and if any would write in a noble style, let him first possess a noble soul.
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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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Daring ideas are like chessmen moved forward. They may be beaten, but they may start a winning game.
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All that is transitory is but a metaphor.
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As soon as you trust yourself, you will know how to live.
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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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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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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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Leap and the net will appear.
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Instruction does much, but encouragement everything.
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Do not give in too much to feelings. A overly sensitive heart is an unhappy possession on this shaky earth.
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If I accept you as you are, I will make you worse; however, if I treat you as though you are what you are capable of becoming, I help you become that.
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Everything transitory is but an image.
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Remember to live.
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Be above it! Make the world serve your purpose, but do not serve it!
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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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Doubt can only be removed by action.
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I love those who yearn for the impossible.
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