The highest goal that man can achieve is amazement.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHEA person hears only what they understand.
More Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes
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I am not omniscient, but I know a lot.
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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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Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Willing is not enough; we must do.
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To be pleased with one’s limits is a wretched state.
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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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The heights charm us, but the steps do not; with the mountain in our view we love to walk the plains.
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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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Misunderstandings and neglect occasion more mischief in the world than malice and wickedness.
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Everything transitory is but an image.
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Night is the other half of life, and the better half.
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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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There is no past we can bring back by longing for it. There is only an eternal now that builds and creates out of the past something new and better.
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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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By seeking and blundering we learn.
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A person hears only what they understand.
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