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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.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

There is nothing more dreadful than imagination without taste.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE

Danger Imagination Taste
To think is easy. To act is hard. But the hardest thing in the world is to act in accordance with your thinking.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE

Act Easy Philosophy Thinking
What a torment it is to see so much loveliness passing and repassing before us, and yet not dare to lay hold of it!
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE

Beautiful Nature See Tolerance
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.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE

Goodness Photograph Poem Possible Reading Song
There is nothing worse than aggressive stupidity.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE

Stupidity Worse
Beauty is a manifestation of secret natural laws, which otherwise would have been hidden from us forever.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE

Beautiful Forever Hide Law Secret
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.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE

Empty Feeling Garden Nature Spirit Thinking World
Difficulties increase the nearer we get to the goal.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE

Difficult Inspirational
Be above it! Make the world serve your purpose, but do not serve it!
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE

Purpose Slave World Yourself
Every situation–nay, every moment–is of infinite worth; for it is the representative of a whole eternity.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE

Forever Moments Worth
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.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE

Happiness Joy Man Value
One never goes so far as when one doesn’t know where one is going.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE

Oneself Travel
Every day I observe more and more the folly of judging of others by ourselves; and I have so much trouble with myself, and my own heart is in such constant agitation, that I am well content to let others pursue their own course, if they only allow me the same privilege.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE

Heart Judgement Myself Ourselves Pursue
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.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE

Creation Happiness Himself Ideal Kind Ourselves Perfection Quality
Doubt can only be removed by action.
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Action Doubt
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.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE

Himself Man Noble Philosophy Soul Writing