There is nothing worse than aggressive stupidity.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHEThe 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.
More Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes
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Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing.
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I love those who yearn for the impossible.
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Leap and the net will appear.
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What is uttered from the heart alone will win the heart of others to your own.
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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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What I possess, seems far away to me, and what is gone becomes reality.
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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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There is nothing more dreadful than imagination without taste.
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Difficulties increase the nearer we get to the goal.
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You can easily judge the character of a man by how he treats those who can do nothing for him.
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Be above it! Make the world serve your purpose, but do not serve it!
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The greatest evil that can befall man is that he should come to think ill of himself.
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And all must follow in my wake.
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The highest goal that man can achieve is amazement.
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There are two things children should get from their parents: roots and wings.
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I am not omniscient, but I know a lot.
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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 does not dominate; it cultivates.
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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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Night is the other half of life, and the better half.
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To think is easy. To act is hard. But the hardest thing in the world is to act in accordance with your thinking.
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Behaviour is a mirror in which every one displays his own image.
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A really great talent finds its happiness in execution.
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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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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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As soon as you trust yourself, you will know how to live.
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