We do not have to visit a madhouse to find disordered minds; our planet is the mental institution of the universe.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHEAll that is transitory is but a metaphor.
More Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes
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Nothing shows a man’s character more than what he laughs at.
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Things which matter most must never be at the mercy of things which matter least.
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If any man wish to write in a clear style, let him be first clear in his thoughts; and if any would write in a noble style, let him first possess a noble soul.
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What I possess, seems far away to me, and what is gone becomes reality.
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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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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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I am not omniscient, but I know a lot.
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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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Everything transitory is but an image.
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He who cannot draw on three thousand years is living from hand to mouth.
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We all of us live upon the past, and through the past we are destroyed.
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A man should hear a little music, read a little poetry, and see a fine picture every day of his life, in order that worldly cares may not obliterate the sense of the beautiful which God has implanted in the human soul.
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We know accurately only when we know little; doubt grows with knowledge.
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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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If I love you, what business is it of yours?
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