Every reader, if he has a strong mind, reads himself into the book, and amalgamates his thoughts with those of the author.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHEThere is nothing worse than aggressive stupidity.
More Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes
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What is uttered from the heart alone will win the heart of others to your own.
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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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He is happiest, be he king or peasant, who finds peace in his home.
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Every day I observe more and more the folly of judging of others by ourselves; and I have so much trouble with myself, and my own heart is in such constant agitation, that I am well content to let others pursue their own course, if they only allow me the same privilege.
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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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None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free.
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I have so much in me, and the feeling for her absorbs it all; I have so much, and without her it all comes to nothing.
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Things which matter most must never be at the mercy of things which matter least.
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Be above it! Make the world serve your purpose, but do not serve it!
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And all must follow in my wake.
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A man sees in the world what he carries in his heart.
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If you treat an individual as he is, he will remain how he is. But if you treat him as if he were what he ought to be and could be, he will become what he ought to be and could be.
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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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All that is transitory is but a metaphor.
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The suffering may be moral or physical; and in my opinion it is just as absurd to call a man a coward who destroys himself, as to call a man a coward who dies of a malignant fever.
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