By seeking and blundering we learn.
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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The highest goal that man can achieve is amazement.
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Do not give in too much to feelings. A overly sensitive heart is an unhappy possession on this shaky earth.
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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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All that is transitory is but a metaphor.
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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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There is nothing more frightful than ignorance in action.
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The world is so empty if one thinks only of mountains, rivers & cities; but to know someone who thinks & feels with us, & who, though distant, is close to us in spirit, this makes the earth for us an inhabited garden.
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We all of us live upon the past, and through the past we are destroyed.
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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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Daring ideas are like chessmen moved forward. They may be beaten, but they may start a winning game.
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Life belongs to the living, and he who lives must be prepared for changes.
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We usually lost today because there has been a yesterday, and tomorrow is coming.
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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.
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In happy ignorance, I sighed for a world I did not know, where I hoped to find every pleasure and enjoyment which my heart could desire; and now, on my return from that wide world, how many disappointed hopes and unsuccessful plans have I brought back!
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We are never deceived; we deceive ourselves.
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Nothing is more dangerous than solitude.
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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 wait for the morning of my tears.
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I love those who yearn for the impossible.
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One never goes so far as when one doesn’t know where one is going.
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I treat my heart like a sick child and gratify its every fancy.
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Too many parents make life hard for their children by trying, too zealously, to make it easy for them.
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We know accurately only when we know little; doubt grows with knowledge.
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Who is the happiest of men? He who values the merits of others, and in their pleasure takes joy, even as though ’twere his own.
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And all must follow in my wake.
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In the colorful reflection we have what is life.
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