I have possessed that heart, that noble soul, in whose presence I seemed to be more than I really was, because I was all that I could be.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHEEvery 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.
More Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes
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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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What a torment it is to see so much loveliness passing and repassing before us, and yet not dare to lay hold of it!
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There is nothing more dreadful than imagination without taste.
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He is happiest, be he king or peasant, who finds peace in his home.
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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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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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What I possess, seems far away to me, and what is gone becomes reality.
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Every situation–nay, every moment–is of infinite worth; for it is the representative of a whole eternity.
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A person hears only what they understand.
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Misunderstandings and neglect occasion more mischief in the world than malice and wickedness.
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None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free.
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Everything transitory is but an image.
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I laugh at my heart, and do its will.
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Two souls, alas, are housed within my breast, and each will wrestle for the mastery there.
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