The heights charm us, but the steps do not; with the mountain in our view we love to walk the plains.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHENone are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free.
More Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes
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The limits of my language are the limits of my universe.
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Do not give in too much to feelings. A overly sensitive heart is an unhappy possession on this shaky earth.
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The intelligent man finds everything laughable, the sensible man hardly anything.
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He is happiest, be he king or peasant, who finds peace in his home.
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Everything transitory is but an image.
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What I possess, seems far away to me, and what is gone becomes reality.
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We usually lost today because there has been a yesterday, and tomorrow is coming.
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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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There is no past we can bring back by longing for it. There is only an eternal now that builds and creates out of the past something new and better.
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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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I am not omniscient, but I know a lot.
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We know accurately only when we know little; doubt grows with knowledge.
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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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Every situation–nay, every moment–is of infinite worth; for it is the representative of a whole eternity.
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Few people have the imagination for reality.
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