All that is transitory is but a metaphor.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHEA person hears only what they understand.
More Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes
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What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals.
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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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How often do I lull my seething blood to rest, for you have never seen anything so unsteady, so uncertain, as this heart.
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The greatest evil that can befall man is that he should come to think ill of himself.
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None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free.
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There is nothing more frightful than ignorance in action.
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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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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.
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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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Know thyself? If I knew myself, I’d run away.
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What is uttered from the heart alone will win the heart of others to your own.
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The rich want good wine, the poor, plenty of wine.
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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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Daring ideas are like chessmen moved forward. They may be beaten, but they may start a winning game.
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The limits of my language are the limits of my universe.
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