We know accurately only when we know little; doubt grows with knowledge.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHEDaring ideas are like chessmen moved forward. They may be beaten, but they may start a winning game.
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Night is the other half of life, and the better half.
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One can stand anything except a succession of ordinary days.
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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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For a man to achieve all that is demanded of him, he must regard himself as greater than he is.
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I laugh at my heart, and do its will.
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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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Nothing shows a man’s character more than what he laughs at.
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We all of us live upon the past, and through the past we are destroyed.
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The highest goal that man can achieve is amazement.
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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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How often do I lull my seething blood to rest, for you have never seen anything so unsteady, so uncertain, as this heart.
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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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Things which matter most must never be at the mercy of things which matter least.
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Few people have the imagination for reality.
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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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