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 are two things children should get from their parents: roots and wings.
More Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes
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One ought, every day at least, to hear a little song, read a good poem, see a fine picture, and, if it were possible, to speak a few reasonable words.
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In the colorful reflection we have what is life.
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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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The intelligent man finds everything laughable, the sensible man hardly anything.
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He who cannot draw on three thousand years is living from hand to mouth.
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Leap and the net will appear.
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If I love you, what business is it of yours?
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One never goes so far as when one doesn’t know where one is going.
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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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I love those who yearn for the impossible.
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Doubt can only be removed by action.
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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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How often do I lull my seething blood to rest, for you have never seen anything so unsteady, so uncertain, as this heart.
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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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What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals.
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