Few people have the imagination for reality.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHEBeauty is a manifestation of secret natural laws, which otherwise would have been hidden from us forever.
More Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes
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The deed is everything; the fame is nothing.
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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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What I possess, seems far away to me, and what is gone becomes reality.
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He is happiest, be he king or peasant, who finds peace in his home.
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There is nothing more frightful than ignorance in action.
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There is nothing worse than aggressive stupidity.
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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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To be pleased with one’s limits is a wretched state.
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And all must follow in my wake.
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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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Life belongs to the living, and he who lives must be prepared for changes.
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Every 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.
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We all of us live upon the past, and through the past we are destroyed.
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Remember to live.
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What is not started today is never finished tomorrow.
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