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.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHEThere is nothing worse than aggressive stupidity.
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I love those who yearn for the impossible.
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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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There is nothing more frightful than ignorance in action.
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One can stand anything except a succession of ordinary days.
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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 reader, if he has a strong mind, reads himself into the book, and amalgamates his thoughts with those of the author.
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One never goes so far as when one doesn’t know where one is going.
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We know accurately only when we know little; doubt grows with knowledge.
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We are never deceived; we deceive ourselves.
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What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals.
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What is uttered from the heart alone will win the heart of others to your own.
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On top of the world, or in the depths of despair.
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There is nothing worse than aggressive stupidity.
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If I accept you as you are, I will make you worse; however, if I treat you as though you are what you are capable of becoming, I help you become that.
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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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