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.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHEThere is no past we can bring back by longing for it. There is only an eternal now that builds and creates out of the past something new and better.
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The intelligent man finds everything laughable, the sensible man hardly anything.
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Misunderstandings and neglect occasion more mischief in the world than malice and wickedness.
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What I possess, seems far away to me, and what is gone becomes reality.
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Instruction does much, but encouragement everything.
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A man sees in the world what he carries in his heart.
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All that is transitory is but a metaphor.
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I wait for the morning of my tears.
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Be above it! Make the world serve your purpose, but do not serve it!
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I have so much in me, and the feeling for her absorbs it all; I have so much, and without her it all comes to nothing.
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I treat my heart like a sick child and gratify its every fancy.
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Doubt can only be removed by action.
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The limits of my language are the limits of my universe.
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Things which matter most must never be at the mercy of things which matter least.
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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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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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