What I possess, seems far away to me, and what is gone becomes reality.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHEDoubt can only be removed by action.
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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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There is nothing worse than aggressive stupidity.
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None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free.
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There is nothing more frightful than ignorance in action.
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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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Be above it! Make the world serve your purpose, but do not serve it!
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Two souls, alas, are housed within my breast, and each will wrestle for the mastery there.
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Difficulties increase the nearer we get to the goal.
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He is happiest, be he king or peasant, who finds peace in his home.
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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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By seeking and blundering we learn.
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Things which matter most must never be at the mercy of things which matter least.
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A really great talent finds its happiness in execution.
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If any man wish to write in a clear style, let him be first clear in his thoughts; and if any would write in a noble style, let him first possess a noble soul.
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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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All that is transitory is but a metaphor.
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Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing.
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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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Who is the happiest of men? He who values the merits of others, and in their pleasure takes joy, even as though ’twere his 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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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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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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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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Nothing shows a man’s character more than what he laughs at.
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Misunderstandings and neglect occasion more mischief in the world than malice and wickedness.
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The highest goal that man can achieve is amazement.
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