What is uttered from the heart alone will win the heart of others to your own.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHEThe limits of my language are the limits of my universe.
More Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes
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And all must follow in my wake.
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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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As soon as you trust yourself, you will know how to live.
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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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If I love you, what business is it of yours?
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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.
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Two souls, alas, are housed within my breast, and each will wrestle for the mastery there.
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Know thyself? If I knew myself, I’d run away.
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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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Life belongs to the living, and he who lives must be prepared for changes.
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What I possess, seems far away to me, and what is gone becomes reality.
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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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You can easily judge the character of a man by how he treats those who can do nothing for him.
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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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A really great talent finds its happiness in execution.
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