The highest goal that man can achieve is amazement.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHEThe intelligent man finds everything laughable, the sensible man hardly anything.
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We all of us live upon the past, and through the past we are destroyed.
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A person hears only what they understand.
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All that is transitory is but a metaphor.
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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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Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Willing is not enough; we must do.
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As soon as you trust yourself, you will know how to live.
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We are never deceived; we deceive ourselves.
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Everybody wants to be somebody, but nobody wants to grow.
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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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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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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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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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What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals.
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There is nothing worse than aggressive stupidity.
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We usually lost today because there has been a yesterday, and tomorrow is coming.
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