A person hears only what they understand.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHEFor a man to achieve all that is demanded of him, he must regard himself as greater than he is.
More Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes
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Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing.
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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 limits of my language are the limits of my universe.
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Doubt can only be removed by action.
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A man should hear a little music, read a little poetry, and see a fine picture every day of his life, in order that worldly cares may not obliterate the sense of the beautiful which God has implanted in the human soul.
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Life belongs to the living, and he who lives must be prepared for changes.
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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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We usually lost today because there has been a yesterday, and tomorrow is coming.
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One never goes so far as when one doesn’t know where one is going.
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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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Leap and the net will appear.
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If I love you, what business is it of yours?
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Beauty is a manifestation of secret natural laws, which otherwise would have been hidden from us forever.
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Two souls, alas, are housed within my breast, and each will wrestle for the mastery there.
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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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