We do not have to visit a madhouse to find disordered minds; our planet is the mental institution of the universe.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHEBy seeking and blundering we learn.
More Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes
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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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Love does not dominate; it cultivates.
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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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Oblivion is full of people who allow the opinions of others to overrule their belief in themselves.
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The rich want good wine, the poor, plenty of wine.
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In happy ignorance, I sighed for a world I did not know, where I hoped to find every pleasure and enjoyment which my heart could desire; and now, on my return from that wide world, how many disappointed hopes and unsuccessful plans have I brought back!
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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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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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Night is the other half of life, and the better half.
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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.
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A really great talent finds its happiness in execution.
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If I accept you as you are, I will make you worse; however, if I treat you as though you are what you are capable of becoming, I help you become that.
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One never goes so far as when one doesn’t know where one is going.
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Things which matter most must never be at the mercy of things which matter least.
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The limits of my language are the limits of my universe.
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