There is nothing more dreadful than imagination without taste.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHEThe 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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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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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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Nothing shows a man’s character more than what he laughs at.
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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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Beauty is a manifestation of secret natural laws, which otherwise would have been hidden from us forever.
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On top of the world, or in the depths of despair.
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The intelligent man finds everything laughable, the sensible man hardly anything.
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One never goes so far as when one doesn’t know where one is going.
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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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I treat my heart like a sick child and gratify its every fancy.
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The highest goal that man can achieve is amazement.
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The rich want good wine, the poor, plenty of wine.
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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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Leap and the net will appear.
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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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