Know thyself? If I knew myself, I’d run away.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHEKnowing is not enough; we must apply. Willing is not enough; we must do.
More Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes
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There are two things children should get from their parents: roots and wings.
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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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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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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.
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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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The 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.
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Difficulties increase the nearer we get to the goal.
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Things which matter most must never be at the mercy of things which matter least.
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Every day I observe more and more the folly of judging of others by ourselves; and I have so much trouble with myself, and my own heart is in such constant agitation, that I am well content to let others pursue their own course, if they only allow me the same privilege.
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Love does not dominate; it cultivates.
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Everything transitory is but an image.
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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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There is nothing worse than aggressive stupidity.
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Too many parents make life hard for their children by trying, too zealously, to make it easy for them.
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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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