A person hears only what they understand.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHEOne can stand anything except a succession of ordinary days.
More Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes
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Nothing is more dangerous than solitude.
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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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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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Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Willing is not enough; we must do.
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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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What a torment it is to see so much loveliness passing and repassing before us, and yet not dare to lay hold of it!
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He who cannot draw on three thousand years is living from hand to mouth.
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I wait for the morning of my tears.
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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.
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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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I am not omniscient, but I know a lot.
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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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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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By seeking and blundering we learn.
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I laugh at my heart, and do its will.
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