We do not have to visit a madhouse to find disordered minds; our planet is the mental institution of the universe.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHEDifficulties increase the nearer we get to the goal.
More Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes
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The limits of my language are the limits of my universe.
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What is uttered from the heart alone will win the heart of others to your own.
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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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Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing.
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All that is transitory is but a metaphor.
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Few people have the imagination for reality.
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If I love you, what business is it of yours?
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For a man to achieve all that is demanded of him, he must regard himself as greater than he is.
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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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Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Willing is not enough; we must do.
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One never goes so far as when one doesn’t know where one is going.
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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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Two souls, alas, are housed within my breast, and each will wrestle for the mastery there.
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By seeking and blundering we learn.
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We know accurately only when we know little; doubt grows with knowledge.
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