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.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHEWe know accurately only when we know little; doubt grows with knowledge.
More Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes
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As soon as you trust yourself, you will know how to live.
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The deed is everything; the fame is nothing.
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There is nothing more frightful than ignorance in action.
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The heights charm us, but the steps do not; with the mountain in our view we love to walk the plains.
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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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Be above it! Make the world serve your purpose, but do not serve it!
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In the colorful reflection we have what is life.
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Things which matter most must never be at the mercy of things which matter least.
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One never goes so far as when one doesn’t know where one is going.
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Two souls, alas, are housed within my breast, and each will wrestle for the mastery there.
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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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A word spoken is a terrible thing when it suddenly utters what the heart has long allowed.
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What is uttered from the heart alone will win the heart of others to your own.
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If I love you, what business is it of yours?
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Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing.
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