The heights charm us, but the steps do not; with the mountain in our view we love to walk the plains.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHEDaring ideas are like chessmen moved forward. They may be beaten, but they may start a winning game.
More Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes
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Misunderstandings and neglect occasion more mischief in the world than malice and wickedness.
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The world is so empty if one thinks only of mountains, rivers & cities; but to know someone who thinks & feels with us, & who, though distant, is close to us in spirit, this makes the earth for us an inhabited garden.
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The limits of my language are the limits of my universe.
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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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Remember to live.
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A person hears only what they understand.
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What I possess, seems far away to me, and what is gone becomes reality.
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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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Behaviour is a mirror in which every one displays his own image.
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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 highest goal that man can achieve is amazement.
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I wait for the morning of my tears.
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Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing.
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We usually lost today because there has been a yesterday, and tomorrow is coming.
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If any man wish to write in a clear style, let him be first clear in his thoughts; and if any would write in a noble style, let him first possess a noble soul.
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