He who cannot draw on three thousand years is living from hand to mouth.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHEThere is nothing worse than aggressive stupidity.
More Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes
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One never goes so far as when one doesn’t know where one is going.
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Behaviour is a mirror in which every one displays his own image.
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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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Instruction does much, but encouragement everything.
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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 human race is a monotonous affair. Most people spend the greatest part of their time working in order to live, and what little freedom remains so fills them with fear that they seek out any and every means to be rid of it.
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There is nothing worse than aggressive stupidity.
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To be pleased with one’s limits is a wretched state.
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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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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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Things which matter most must never be at the mercy of things which matter least.
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None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free.
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I have possessed that heart, that noble soul, in whose presence I seemed to be more than I really was, because I was all that I could be.
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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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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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