We do not have to visit a madhouse to find disordered minds; our planet is the mental institution of the universe.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHEOne can stand anything except a succession of ordinary days.
More Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes
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You can easily judge the character of a man by how he treats those who can do nothing for him.
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Know thyself? If I knew myself, I’d run away.
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To be pleased with one’s limits is a wretched state.
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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 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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Every reader, if he has a strong mind, reads himself into the book, and amalgamates his thoughts with those of the author.
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We know accurately only when we know little; doubt grows with knowledge.
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What I possess, seems far away to me, and what is gone becomes reality.
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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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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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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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Night is the other half of life, and the better half.
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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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