Be above it! Make the world serve your purpose, but do not serve it!
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHEWhat is uttered from the heart alone will win the heart of others to your own.
More Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes
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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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Oblivion is full of people who allow the opinions of others to overrule their belief in themselves.
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A man sees in the world what he carries in his heart.
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There is nothing worse than aggressive stupidity.
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I have so much in me, and the feeling for her absorbs it all; I have so much, and without her it all comes to nothing.
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We all of us live upon the past, and through the past we are destroyed.
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Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Willing is not enough; we must do.
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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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Few people have the imagination for reality.
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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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Nothing shows a man’s character more than what he laughs at.
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To be pleased with one’s limits is a wretched state.
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A person hears only what they understand.
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Life belongs to the living, and he who lives must be prepared for changes.
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The intelligent man finds everything laughable, the sensible man hardly anything.
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