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None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE

Creation Happiness Himself Ideal Kind Ourselves Perfection Quality
The deed is everything; the fame is nothing.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE

Fame One Liner Worth
Two souls, alas, are housed within my breast, and each will wrestle for the mastery there.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE

Deep Philosophy Soul
On top of the world, or in the depths of despair.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE

Choice Deep World
A word spoken is a terrible thing when it suddenly utters what the heart has long allowed.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE

Heart Word
What I possess, seems far away to me, and what is gone becomes reality.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE

Myself Philosophy Reality
Few people have the imagination for reality.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE

Imagination People Reality
Things which matter most must never be at the mercy of things which matter least.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE

Importance Mercy Worth
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.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE

Heart Judgement Myself Ourselves Pursue
I am not omniscient, but I know a lot.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE

Knowledge Myself
We all of us live upon the past, and through the past we are destroyed.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE

Destroy Live Past
Nothing is more dangerous than solitude.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE

Danger Solitude
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.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE

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The greatest evil that can befall man is that he should come to think ill of himself.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE

Evil Greatness Himself Sick
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 GOETHE

Alive Kill Live Lost Soul
Every situation–nay, every moment–is of infinite worth; for it is the representative of a whole eternity.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE

Forever Moments Worth