In happy ignorance, I sighed for a world I did not know, where I hoped to find every pleasure and enjoyment which my heart could desire; and now, on my return from that wide world, how many disappointed hopes and unsuccessful plans have I brought back!
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHEWe know accurately only when we know little; doubt grows with knowledge.
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By seeking and blundering we learn.
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Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing.
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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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Be above it! Make the world serve your purpose, but do not serve it!
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Life belongs to the living, and he who lives must be prepared for changes.
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He is happiest, be he king or peasant, who finds peace in his home.
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The limits of my language are the limits of my universe.
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One never goes so far as when one doesn’t know where one is going.
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There are two things children should get from their parents: roots and wings.
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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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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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The highest goal that man can achieve is amazement.
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Things which matter most must never be at the mercy of things which matter least.
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Few people have the imagination for reality.
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We know accurately only when we know little; doubt grows with knowledge.
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