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.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHEThe limits of my language are the limits of my universe.
More Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes
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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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Behaviour is a mirror in which every one displays his own image.
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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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Remember to live.
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What I possess, seems far away to me, and what is gone becomes reality.
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The deed is everything; the fame is nothing.
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To be pleased with one’s limits is a wretched state.
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There is nothing more dreadful than imagination without taste.
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In the colorful reflection we have what is life.
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Love does not dominate; it cultivates.
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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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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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Nothing shows a man’s character more than what he laughs at.
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What is uttered from the heart alone will win the heart of others to your own.
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There are two things children should get from their parents: roots and wings.
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