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.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHETo be pleased with one’s limits is a wretched state.
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Few people have the imagination for reality.
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The highest goal that man can achieve is amazement.
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Life belongs to the living, and he who lives must be prepared for changes.
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Is this the destiny of man? Is he only happy before he has acquired his reason or after he has lost it?
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I laugh at my heart, and do its will.
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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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If I accept you as you are, I will make you worse; however, if I treat you as though you are what you are capable of becoming, I help you become that.
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You can easily judge the character of a man by how he treats those who can do nothing for him.
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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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Leap and the net will appear.
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If I love you, what business is it of yours?
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As soon as you trust yourself, you will know how to live.
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What is uttered from the heart alone will win the heart of others to your own.
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To think is easy. To act is hard. But the hardest thing in the world is to act in accordance with your thinking.
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He who cannot draw on three thousand years is living from hand to mouth.
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