And all must follow in my wake.
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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If you treat an individual as he is, he will remain how he is. But if you treat him as if he were what he ought to be and could be, he will become what he ought to be and could be.
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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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Behaviour is a mirror in which every one displays his own image.
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We all of us live upon the past, and through the past we are destroyed.
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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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The limits of my language are the limits of my universe.
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The deed is everything; the fame is nothing.
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We are never deceived; we deceive ourselves.
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We know accurately only when we know little; doubt grows with knowledge.
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What is not started today is never finished tomorrow.
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None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free.
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By seeking and blundering we learn.
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Everybody wants to be somebody, but nobody wants to grow.
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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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The rich want good wine, the poor, plenty of wine.
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