We are never deceived; we deceive ourselves.
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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What is uttered from the heart alone will win the heart of others to your own.
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What a torment it is to see so much loveliness passing and repassing before us, and yet not dare to lay hold of it!
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I laugh at my heart, and do its will.
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Few people have the imagination for reality.
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To be pleased with one’s limits is a wretched state.
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I love those who yearn for the impossible.
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There is nothing worse than aggressive stupidity.
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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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And all must follow in my wake.
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Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing.
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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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Night is the other half of life, and the better half.
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He who cannot draw on three thousand years is living from hand to mouth.
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What I possess, seems far away to me, and what is gone becomes reality.
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