Difficulties increase the nearer we get to the goal.
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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I am not omniscient, but I know a lot.
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One ought, every day at least, to hear a little song, read a good poem, see a fine picture, and, if it were possible, to speak a few reasonable words.
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Doubt can only be removed by action.
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There is nothing worse than aggressive stupidity.
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Two souls, alas, are housed within my breast, and each will wrestle for the mastery there.
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The limits of my language are the limits of my universe.
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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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I treat my heart like a sick child and gratify its every fancy.
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Every reader, if he has a strong mind, reads himself into the book, and amalgamates his thoughts with those of the author.
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He who cannot draw on three thousand years is living from hand to mouth.
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Daring ideas are like chessmen moved forward. They may be beaten, but they may start a winning game.
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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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Few people have the imagination for reality.
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We all of us live upon the past, and through the past we are destroyed.
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Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing.
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