The human race is a monotonous affair. Most people spend the greatest part of their time working in order to live, and what little freedom remains so fills them with fear that they seek out any and every means to be rid of it.
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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We all of us live upon the past, and through the past we are destroyed.
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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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Is this the destiny of man? Is he only happy before he has acquired his reason or after he has lost it?
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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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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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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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I treat my heart like a sick child and gratify its every fancy.
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Difficulties increase the nearer we get to the goal.
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I laugh at my heart, and do its will.
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Life belongs to the living, and he who lives must be prepared for changes.
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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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The deed is everything; the fame is nothing.
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We do not have to visit a madhouse to find disordered minds; our planet is the mental institution of the universe.
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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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One never goes so far as when one doesn’t know where one is going.
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