The heights charm us, but the steps do not; with the mountain in our view we love to walk the plains.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHEAs soon as you trust yourself, you will know how to live.
More Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes
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The highest goal that man can achieve is amazement.
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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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To be loved for what one is, that is the greatest exception. The great majority love in others only what they lend him; their own selves, their version of him.
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What I possess, seems far away to me, and what is gone becomes reality.
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None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free.
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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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The deed is everything; the fame is nothing.
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Remember to live.
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Nothing is more dangerous than solitude.
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By seeking and blundering we learn.
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When scholars study a thing, they strive to kill it first, if it’s alive; then they have the parts and they’ve lost the whole, for the link that’s missing was the living soul.
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Two souls, alas, are housed within my breast, and each will wrestle for the mastery there.
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I have so much in me, and the feeling for her absorbs it all; I have so much, and without her it all comes to nothing.
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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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Things which matter most must never be at the mercy of things which matter least.
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