Night is the other half of life, and the better half.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHELove is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing.
More Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes
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In the colorful reflection we have what is life.
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A man sees in the world what he carries in his heart.
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To be pleased with one’s limits is a wretched state.
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Every reader, if he has a strong mind, reads himself into the book, and amalgamates his thoughts with those of the author.
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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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By seeking and blundering we learn.
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Do not give in too much to feelings. A overly sensitive heart is an unhappy possession on this shaky earth.
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The limits of my language are the limits of my universe.
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Few people have the imagination for reality.
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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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The greatest evil that can befall man is that he should come to think ill of himself.
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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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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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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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I am not omniscient, but I know a lot.
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