The heights charm us, but the steps do not; with the mountain in our view we love to walk the plains.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHEBehaviour is a mirror in which every one displays his own image.
More Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes
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To be pleased with one’s limits is a wretched state.
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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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The suffering may be moral or physical; and in my opinion it is just as absurd to call a man a coward who destroys himself, as to call a man a coward who dies of a malignant fever.
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Misunderstandings and neglect occasion more mischief in the world than malice and wickedness.
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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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By seeking and blundering we learn.
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If you’ve never eaten while crying you don’t know what life tastes like.
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Doubt can only be removed by action.
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We do not have to visit a madhouse to find disordered minds; our planet is the mental institution of the universe.
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Behaviour is a mirror in which every one displays his own image.
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Be above it! Make the world serve your purpose, but do not serve it!
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What is uttered from the heart alone will win the heart of others to your own.
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Night is the other half of life, and the better half.
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Things which matter most must never be at the mercy of things which matter least.
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There is nothing worse than aggressive stupidity.
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