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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.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Is this the destiny of man? Is he only happy before he has acquired his reason or after he has lost it?
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE

Destiny Happiness Lost Man Reason
The deed is everything; the fame is nothing.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE

Fame One Liner Worth
Oblivion is full of people who allow the opinions of others to overrule their belief in themselves.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE

Believe Opinion People
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.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE

Alive Kill Live Lost Soul
I am not omniscient, but I know a lot.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE

Knowledge Myself
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.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE

Heart Judgement Myself Ourselves Pursue
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.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE

Exception Greatness Himself Love Oneself
Beauty is a manifestation of secret natural laws, which otherwise would have been hidden from us forever.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE

Beautiful Forever Hide Law Secret
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.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE

Beautiful God Human Life Man Music Photograph Poetry Reading Soul
Do not give in too much to feelings. A overly sensitive heart is an unhappy possession on this shaky earth.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE

Feeling Heart Philosophy
And all must follow in my wake.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE

Myself Wake Up
I wait for the morning of my tears.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE

Morning Myself Tears Wait
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.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE

Creation Past Philosophy
The heights charm us, but the steps do not; with the mountain in our view we love to walk the plains.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE

Love Ourselves View Walk
The limits of my language are the limits of my universe.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE

Language Limitation World
Daring ideas are like chessmen moved forward. They may be beaten, but they may start a winning game.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE

Game Ideas Start Win