Johann Wolfgang von Goethe on love
“The heights charm us, but the steps do not; with the mountain in our view we love to walk the plains.”
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Few people have the imagination for reality.
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheJohann Wolfgang von Goethe There is nothing more frightful than ignorance in action.
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheJohann Wolfgang von Goethe In the colorful reflection we have what is life.
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheJohann Wolfgang von Goethe Leap and the net will appear.
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheJohann Wolfgang von Goethe We are never deceived; we deceive ourselves.
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheJohann Wolfgang von Goethe Everything transitory is but an image.
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheJohann Wolfgang von Goethe Remember to live.
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheJohann Wolfgang von Goethe We all of us live upon the past, and through the past we are destroyed.
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheJohann Wolfgang von Goethe One never goes so far as when one doesn’t know where one is going.
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheJohann Wolfgang von Goethe There is nothing more dreadful than imagination without taste.
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheJohann Wolfgang von Goethe A word spoken is a terrible thing when it suddenly utters what the heart has long allowed.
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheJohann Wolfgang von Goethe On top of the world, or in the depths of despair.
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheJohann Wolfgang von Goethe One can stand anything except a succession of ordinary days.
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheJohann Wolfgang von Goethe By seeking and blundering we learn.
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheJohann Wolfgang von Goethe He who cannot draw on three thousand years is living from hand to mouth.
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheJohann Wolfgang von Goethe 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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