None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHEWe 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.
More Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes
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In the colorful reflection we have what is life.
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The intelligent man finds everything laughable, the sensible man hardly anything.
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Leap and the net will appear.
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The human race is a monotonous affair. Most people spend the greatest part of their time working in order to live, and what little freedom remains so fills them with fear that they seek out any and every means to be rid of it.
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There is nothing more frightful than ignorance in action.
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What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals.
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What is uttered from the heart alone will win the heart of others to your own.
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We do not have to visit a madhouse to find disordered minds; our planet is the mental institution of the universe.
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If I love you, what business is it of yours?
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How often do I lull my seething blood to rest, for you have never seen anything so unsteady, so uncertain, as this heart.
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A really great talent finds its happiness in execution.
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A word spoken is a terrible thing when it suddenly utters what the heart has long allowed.
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I am not omniscient, but I know a lot.
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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.
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Few people have the imagination for reality.
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