I wait for the morning of my tears.
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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I laugh at my heart, and do its will.
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Leap and the net will appear.
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Everything transitory is but an image.
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One ought, every day at least, to hear a little song, read a good poem, see a fine picture, and, if it were possible, to speak a few reasonable words.
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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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Every day one should at least hear one little song, read one good poem, see one fine painting and – if at all possible – speak a few sensible words.
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Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing.
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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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Life belongs to the living, and he who lives must be prepared for changes.
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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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There is nothing worse than aggressive stupidity.
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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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By seeking and blundering we learn.
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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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Is this the destiny of man? Is he only happy before he has acquired his reason or after he has lost it?
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